Title
Assessing fat-tree topologies for regular network-on-chip design under nanoscale technology constraints
Abstract
Most of past evaluations of fat-trees for on-chip interconnection networks rely on oversimplifying or even irrealistic architecture and traffic pattern assumptions, and very few layout analyses are available to relieve practical feasibility concerns in nanoscale technologies. This work aims at providing an in-depth assessment of physical synthesis efficiency of fat-trees and at extrapolating silicon-aware performance figures to back-annotate in the system-level performance analysis. A 2D mesh is used as a reference architecture for comparison, and a 65 nm technology is targeted by our study. Finally, in an attempt to mitigate the implementation cost of k-ary n-tree topologies, we also review an alternative unidirectional multi-stage interconnection network which is able to simplify the fat-tree architecture and to minimally impact performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/DATE.2009.5090727
DATE
Keywords
Field
DocType
implementation cost,system-level performance analysis,impact performance,fat-tree topology,in-depth assessment,reference architecture,irrealistic architecture,regular network-on-chip design,silicon-aware performance figure,fat-tree architecture,nanoscale technology constraint,on-chip interconnection network,alternative unidirectional multi-stage interconnection,network topology,network synthesis,scalability,computer architecture,network on chip,integrated circuit layout,parallel processing,traffic pattern,system on a chip,topology,chip,layout,fat tree topology,network on a chip,switches,nanoelectronics,extrapolation
Integrated circuit layout,System on a chip,Computer science,Parallel computing,Network on a chip,Network topology,Reference architecture,Interconnection,Fat tree,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1591
24
1.08
References 
Authors
19
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Ludovici1251.45
Francisco Gilabert21337.02
S. Medardoni3782.63
Crispín Gómez Requena416012.57
M. E. Gómez5473.66
Pedro Lopez638727.39
Georgi Gaydadjiev71117104.92
Davide Bertozzi8165399.83