An adaptive transmitting power technique for energy efficient mm-wave wireless NoCs

Abstract

Several emerging techniques have been recently proposed for alleviating the communication latency and the energy consumption issues in multi/many-core architectures. One of such emerging communication techniques, namely, WiNoC replaces the traditional wired links with the use of wireless medium. Unfortunately, the energy consumed by the RF transceiver (i.e., the main building block of a WiNoC), and in particular by its transmitter, accounts for a significant fraction of the overall communication energy. In this paper we propose a runtime tunable transmitting power technique for improving the energy efficiency of the transceiver in wireless NoC architectures. The basic idea is tuning the transmitting power based on the location of the recipient of the current communication. The integration of the proposed technique into two known WiNoC architectures, namely, iWise64 and McWiNoC resulted in an energy reduction of 43% and 60%, respectively.