Bhowmik, B.Deka, J.K.Biswas, S.2026-02-062020ICECS 2020 - 27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Proceedings, 2020, Vol., , p. -https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS49266.2020.9294931https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/30562SMART NoC topology components, such as octagon, spidergon are progressively becoming the primary design choice for implementing the communication backbone in a multi-core SoC platform for lowering a high number of inter-router hops required by long-range traffic. However, aggressive technology scaling has increased the number of transient/permanent faults raising the reliability concerns in a SMART NoC. This paper presents a reliability monitoring scheme for addressing channel-short faults in the basic octagon NoC. Along with the online detection and diagnosis of short faults, an effective scheduling scheme is proposed to provide a low-cost test solution that outperforms over a set of prior schemes. © 2020 IEEE.Fault testOctagon network-on-chipOnline performance evaluationReliability monitoringShort-channel fault