Title
Latency Improvement of an Industrial SoC System Interconnect using an Asynchronous NoC Backbone
Abstract
Thanks to their intrinsic pipelining and their globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous nature, quasi-delay-insensitive asynchronous networks on chip can provide high throughput and low latency especially suited to chip-level interconnect. We present the substitution of the multi-clock-domain NoC of a Qualcomm mobile platform by an equivalent ANoC robust asynchronous NoC, relying on the existing network interfaces and automated tools, with a hierarchical substitution of the NoC backbone. Given a raw data-rate twice-higher than the synchronous NoC allowing in-network serialization by two, we show that this integration of an asynchronous NoC can improve system latency or area by 24% with no degradation of throughput and minimal impact on peak power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ASYNC.2019.00014
2019 25th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Asynchronous Network on Chip,GALS design,System Level Interconnect,Network on Chip
Asynchronous communication,Pipeline (computing),Serialization,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Network on a chip,Throughput,Latency (engineering),Embedded system,Network interface
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2643-1394
978-1-5386-4748-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yvain Thonnart134932.39
Pascal Vivet260653.09
Shikhanshu Agarwal300.68
Ramesh Chauhan400.34