Handling Physical-Layer Deadlock Caused by Permanent Faults in Quasi-Delay-Insensitive Networks-on-Chip.

Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are promising fabrics to provide scalable and efficient on-chip communication for large-scale many-core systems. In place of the well-studied synchronous NoCs, the event-driven asynchronous ones have emerged as promising replacement thanks to their strong timing robustness especially when implemented in quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) circuits. However, their fault tolerance ...