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Cost-Effective Design of Mesh-of-Tree Interconnect for Multi-Core Clusters with 3-D Stacked L2 Scratchpad Memory

Kang, Kyungsu  
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Benini, Luca  
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De Micheli, Giovanni  
2015
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems

3-D integrated circuits (3-D ICs) offer a promising solution to overcome the scaling limitations of 2-D ICs. However, using too many through-silicon-vias (TSVs) pose a negative impact on 3-D ICs due to the large overhead of TSV (e.g., large footprint and low yield). In this paper, we propose a new TSV sharing method for a circuit-switched 3-D mesh-of-tree (MoT) interconnect, which supports high-throughput and low-latency communication between processing cores and 3-D stacked multibanked L2 scratchpad memory. The proposed method supports traffic balancing and TSV-failure tolerant routing. The proposed method advocates a modular design strategy to allow stacking multiple identical memory dies without the need for different masks for dies at different levels in the memory stack. We also investigate various parameters of 3-D memory stacking (e.g., fabrication technology, TSV bonding technique, number of memory tiers, and TSV sharing scheme) that affect interconnect latency, system performance, and fabrication cost. Compared to conventional MoT interconnect that is straightforwardly adapted to 3-D integration, the proposed method yields up to (times 2.11) and (times 1.11) improvements in terms of cost efficiency (i.e., performance/cost) for microbump TSV bonding and direct Cu–Cu TSV bonding techniques, respectively.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TVLSI.2014.2346032
Web of Science ID

WOS:000364208100024

Author(s)
Kang, Kyungsu  
Benini, Luca  
De Micheli, Giovanni  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Volume

23

Issue

9

Start page

1828

End page

1841

Subjects

3-D integration

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multicore

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networks-on-chip (NoC)

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scratchpad memory (SPM)

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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