PNoC - Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Parameterizable NoC for MCSoC Generation and Design Space Exploration

ABC Based Multi-Objective Approach for NoC Design Space Exploration

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has recently emerged as an efficient communication solution for the System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Design space exploration and performance evaluation are the most essential task in NoC design. In this paper, an ABC based design space exploration framework for the NoC design is proposed. The objective of the design space exploration is to minimize the total energy consumptio...

NoCTweak: a Highly Parameterizable Simulator for Early Exploration of Performance and Energy of Networks On-Chip

As the number of processing elements (PE) on a single chip increases with each generation of CMOS technology, network on-chip (NoC) has become a de-facto communication fabric for these PEs. Due to high design and test costs for real many-core chips, simulators which allow exploring the best design options for a system before actually building it have been becoming highly necessary in system des...

A Parameterizable NoC Router for FPGAs

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) approach for designing (System-on-Chip) SoCs is currently used for overcoming the scalability and efficiency problems of traditional on-chip interconnection schemes, such as shared buses and point-to-point links. NoC design draws on concepts from computer networks to interconnect Intellectual Property (IP) cores in a structured and scalable way, promoting design re-use...

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration

Non-Blocking Routers Design Based on West First Routing Algorithm & MZI Switches for Photonic NoC

For the first time, the 4- and 5-port optical routers are designed by using the West First routing algorithm for use in optical network on chip. The use of the WF algorithm has made the designed routers to provide non-blocking routing in photonic network on chip. These routers not only are based on high speed Mach-Zehnder switches(Which have a higher bandwidth and more thermal tolerance than mi...