Title
S4NOC: a minimalistic network-on-chip for real-time multicores
Abstract
Message passing using a network-on-chip (NoC) is an efficient way to provide core-to-core communication on a multicore processor. However, many NoCs use routers and network interfaces that are optimized for the average case. Therefore, it is hard to bound the worst-case latency of a message or the bandwidth. Furthermore, often large buffers are used in the routers and network interfaces, which require a considerable amount of area. This paper presents a statically scheduled NoC that uses time-division multiplexing at the links, the routers, and the network interfaces. Static scheduled traffic allows computing upper bounds for end-to-end latencies of messages, which is a requirement for building multicore real-time systems. Furthermore, this static scheduled NoC needs no additional buffers, except pipeline registers, and the resulting resource requirement is low.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3356045.3360714
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures
Keywords
Field
DocType
network-on-chip, real-time systems, time-predictable computer architecture
Computer science,Network on a chip,Distributed computing,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6949-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Schoeberl185.28
luca pezzarossa2244.85
Jens Sparsø345352.97