Name
Title | ||
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Contrasting topologies for regular interconnection networks under the constraints of nanoscale silicon technology |
Abstract | ||
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Nowadays, system designers have adopted Networks-on-Chip as communication infrastructure of general-purpose tile-based Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). Such decision implies that a certain topology has to be selected to efficiently interconnect many cores on the chip. To ease such a choice, the networking literature offers a plethora of works about topology analysis and characterization for the off-chip domain. However, theoretical parameters and many intuitive assumptions of such off-chip networks do not necessarily hold when a topology is laid out on a 2D silicon surface. This is due to the distinctive features of silicon technology design pitfalls. This work is a first milestone to bridge this gap, in fact, we propose a comprehensive analysis framework to assess k-ary n-mesh and C-mesh topologies at different level of abstractions, from system to layout level, while capturing implications of system and layout parameters across design hierarchy. When a certain topology proves to be slow due to long links crossing the chip, pipeline stages have been inserted to cope with such slow-down. Furthermore, costs of such speed-up technique have been evaluated to draw a comprehensive performance/area figure. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/1921249.1921259 | NoCArc@MICRO |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
certain topology,different level,contrasting topology,comprehensive performance,system designer,layout parameter,c-mesh topology,comprehensive analysis framework,topology analysis,layout level,nanoscale silicon technology,regular interconnection network,design hierarchy,network on chip,system on chip,chip,network topology,network topologies,system design | Logical topology,Computer science,Design technology,Network on a chip,Real-time computing,Network topology,Chip,Hierarchy,Interconnection,MPSoC,Distributed computing | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.42 | 15 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniele Ludovici | 1 | 61 | 4.92 |
| Georgi Gaydadjiev | 2 | 1117 | 104.92 |
| Francisco Gilabert | 3 | 133 | 7.02 |
| Maria E. Gomez | 4 | 44 | 3.80 |
| Davide Bertozzi | 5 | 1653 | 99.83 |