Design of Reliable NoC Architectures

Communication network in the computing realm has always played a vital role towards providing an efficient processing environment. In the past decades, rapid miniaturization has introduced newer challenges and has further stressed on the importance of on-chip communication, as efficient communication between the components on the chip proves to be crucial factor in meeting the overall performance goals. A Network-on-Chip (NoC) has proven to be a trustworthy solution to meet the communication requirements of a System-on-Chip (SoC). This chapter investigates the factors affecting the reliability of an NoC architecture and presents efficient design paradigms to meet the reliability challenges.