Reconfigurable Networks-on-Chip

Providing a comprehensive survey of recent progress in the design and implementation of Networks-on-Chip (NoC), this book addresses a wide spectrum of on-chip communication problems. It offers practical knowledge about the design and implementation of NoC.

Written for practicing engineers in need of practical knowledge about the design and implementation of networks-on-chip Includes tutorial-like details to introduce readers to a diverse range of NoC designs, as well as in-depth analysis for designers with NoC experience to explore advanced issues Describes a variety of on-chip communication architectures, including a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

This book provides a comprehensive survey of recent progress in the design and implementation of Networks-on-Chip. It addresses a wide spectrum of on-chip communication problems, ranging from physical, network, to application layers. Specific topics that are explored in detail include packet routing, resource arbitration, error control/correction, application mapping, and communication scheduling. Additionally, a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC (BiNoC) architecture is described, with detailed explanation.

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• Written for practicing engineers in need of practical knowledge about the design and implementation of networks-on-chip;
• Includes tutorial-like details to introduce readers to a diverse range of NoC designs, as well as in-depth analysis for designers with NoC experience to explore advanced issues;

• Describes a variety of on-chip communication architectures, including a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC.

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From the Foreword:

Overall this book shows important advances over the state of the art that will affect future system design as well as R&D in tools and methods for NoC design. It represents an important reference point for both designers and electronic design automation researchers and developers.

--Giovanni De Micheli

Inhalt
Communication Centric Design.- Preliminaries.- Techniques for High Performance NoC Routing.- Performance-Energy tradeoffs for NoC Reliability.- Energy-aware Task Scheduling for NoC-based DVS System.- Bi-directional NoC Architecture.- Quality-of-Service in BiNoC.- Fault Tolerance in BiNoC.- Application Mapping for BiNoC.