Clotho: Proactive Wearout Deceleration in Chip-Multiprocessor Interconnects Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 IEEE. With advancing process technology, Chip-Multiprocessors (CMPs) are experiencing ever worsening reliability due to prolonged operational stresses. The network-on-chip that interconnects the components of CMPs is especially vulnerable to such wearout-induced failure. To tackle this ominous threat we present Clotho, a novel, wearout-Aware routing algorithm. Clotho continuously considers the stresses the on-chip interconnect experiences at runtime, along with temperature and fabrication process variation metrics, steering traffic away from locations that are most prone to Electromigration (EM)-and Hot-Carrier Injection (HCI)-induced wear. Under realistic workloads Clotho yields 66% and 8% average increases in mean time to failure for EM and HCI, respectively.

name of conference

  • 2015 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)

published proceedings

  • 2015 33RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER DESIGN (ICCD)

author list (cited authors)

  • Vitkovskiy, A., Soteriou, V., & Gratz, P. V.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Vitkovskiy, Arseniy||Soteriou, Vassos||Gratz, Paul V

publication date

  • October 2015