Keys for Administration of Reconfigurable NoC: Self-Adaptive Network Interface Case Study

The design of recent Systems-on-Chip (SoC) for a large scope of applications, such as telecom and multi-media domains, and in various platform types ranging from dedicated platforms to fully programmable platforms, is mainly constrained by communications. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) have recently emerged as a promising concept to support communication on SoCs providing a solution to connect different IP-cores through an effective, modular, and scalable communication network. In recent years, the introduction of hard and soft processor cores into reconfigurable circuits, exploiting the flexibility of FPGA, has changed the job and horizon of designers by providing them with complete Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (RSoC). Key industry issues such as design productivity and embedded system reliability have turned RSoC into viable solutions for embedded systems design. However, we observe that recurrent drawbacks are usually stressed by industrial partners regarding abStract