Survey of Wireless Network-on-Chip Systems

Nowadays, network-on-chip (NoC) systems are becoming more popular due to their big advantages when compare with systems-on-chip (SoC). Therefore, an increasing number of researchers and organizations now focus on the study and development of NoC techniques. As a result, so far many achievements have been gained. Furthermore, considering the dominant position of wireless and the weakness of wired communication, people also turn to try to insert wireless links in NoC systems in order to solve the multi-hop problem. This report gives a brief description of some outstanding developments of NoC and WNoC (Wireless NoC) systems, including some important technique and the achieved results, mainly related to the required hardware and communication protocols. In addition, the report also contains my experiments on NoC and WNoC systems. I use the Booksim simulator to measure their performances and make some comparisons, and then give some analysis and conclusion of those results. At the end the report summarizes the finished work and gives some more developing directions of NoC and WNoC systems.