Clock Boosting Router: Increasing the Performance of an Adaptive Router in Network-on-Chip (NoC)

In this paper, a simple and efficient clock boosting mechanism to increase the performance of anadaptive router in network-on-chip (noc) is proposed. one of the most serious disadvantagesof a fully adaptive wormhole router is performance degradation due to the routing decision time.the key idea to overcome this shortcoming is the use of different clocks in a head flit andbody flits. the simulation results show that the proposed clock boosting mechanism enhancesthe performance of the original adaptive router by increasing the accepted load and decreasingthe average latency in the region of effective bandwidth. the enhanced throughput of a routerresults in power saving by reducing the operating frequency of a router for certain communicationbandwidth requirements