Design of Network on Chip (NoC) Computing Node for Mesh Topology using Soft-core NIOS-II Processor

Memory Utilization of Processor Allocator for NoC-based Chip Multiprocessors with Mesh Topology

Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) have become the primary method of build high-performance microprocessors. Besides speed, major elements such as processing elements and network on chip, allocation and management of on-chip processors are also important factor to achieve high efficiency of future CMPs. In this paper, the authors study a Processor Allocator (PA), especially the issue of its memory uti...

Cost-aware Topology Customization of Mesh-based Networks-on-Chip

Nowadays, the growing demand for supporting multiple applications causes to use multiple IPs onto the chip. In fact, finding truly scalable communication architecture will be a critical concern. To this end, the Networks-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has emerged as a promising solution to on-chip communication challenges within the silicon-based electronics. Many of today’s NoC architectures are based...

FPGA-Based Clinical Diagnostic System using Pipelined Architectures in the Nios II Soft-Core Processor

Clinical decision making is a complicated process. It is based on medical knowledge derived from medical books and literature and on data obtained from various clinical trials and diagnostic tests; however, it is also dependent on experience, judgment, and reasoning, which are functions of the human brain. In many situations, human decision making is not available, and in these situations, inst...

Nios II Embedded Processor Design Contest

Multimedia Decoder Using the Nios II Processor

Design Introduction Our design target was to build a low-cost, high-performance H.264 decoder with a prototype H.264 decoder created using multiple small FPGAs. H.264 is a computationally complex, advanced video standard for achieving high compression ratios. To cater to the needs of high throughput applications such as HDTV, which requires 216,000 macroblocks/second of throughput, designers us...