Invention:
QORE is a fault tolerant Different Network on Chip (NoCs) that seeks to reduce power consumption and improve performance of NoCs while mitigating errors caused by faults. Through a new type of data buffer and connecting multiple processing cores QORE has the ability to reduce power and avoid faults.
Background:
With electrical components shrinking in size, there has been remarkable growth in the number of cores that can be integrated within a single chip multiprocessor. As the number of cores continue to scale and conventional on-chip communications approach their limits, architects are urged to consider other scalable communication strategies. Different Network on Chips (NoCs) configurations have been a viable tool in order to overcome these limits but has come at great costs, including a power and area expense which has adversely affected NoC performance.
Applications:
- For network-on chips connecting multiple processing cores
- General purpose computing on graphics processing units
- Mobile industries
- Workstations
- Servers
- Consumer electronics
Advantages:
- Ability to reduce power and avoid faults
- Scale future multi-core chips and SoCs to a much higher core numbers and much higher performance levels
Status: issued patent #10,148,593