Study of high reliability NoC based on power gating

Due to extensibility and high performance of Network on Chip (NoC), it has been considered as a new paradigm in the next generation communication architecture. However, increased power consumption has reduced the reliability of NoC and hindered its wide-deployment. In this paper, we propose a new design of high reliability NoC based on Power Gating, which can switch routers on or off by monitoring each port of routers. Our study shows that the proposed method is effective in reducing static power and improving reliability.