Diagnosis of Interconnect Shorts in Mesh NoCs

Marcos Hervé,  Érika Cota,  Fernanda Kastensmidt,  Marcelo Lubaszewski
UFRGS Federal University


Abstract

We propose a method to diagnose interconnect short faults in mesh NoCs. The fault model comprises all shorts between any two wires of a defined neighborhood in the NoC and a functional test procedure is applied. Experimental results show that 93% of the interconnect short faults can be diagnosed.