Clustering-Based Simultaneous Task and Voltage Scheduling for NoC Systems Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Networks-on-chip (NoC) is emerging as a promising communication structure, which is scalable with respect to chip complexity. Meanwhile, latest chip designs are increasingly leveraging multiple voltage-frequency domains for energy-efficiency improvement. In this work, we propose a simultaneous task and voltage scheduling algorithm for energy minimization in NoC based designs. The energy-latency tradeoff is handled by Lagrangian relaxation. The core algorithm is a clustering based approach which not only assigns voltage levels and starting time to each task (or Processing Element) but also naturally finds voltage-frequency clusters. Compared to a recent previous work, which performs task scheduling and voltage assignment sequentially, our method leads to an average of 20% energy reduction. 2010 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

published proceedings

  • 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

author list (cited authors)

  • Liu, Y., Yang, Y. u., & Hu, J.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Liu, Yifang||Yang, Yu||Hu, Jiang

publication date

  • November 2010