1. Automated Techniques for Synthesis of Application-Specific Network-on-Chip Architectures.
- Author
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Chatha, Karam S., Srinivasan, Krishnan, and Konjevod, Goran
- Subjects
BENCHMARKING (Management) ,COMPUTER architecture ,COMPUTER algorithms ,COMPUTER network architectures ,TOPOLOGY ,INTEGRATED circuit design ,COMPUTER simulation of integrated circuits - Abstract
This paper addresses the automated synthesis of a custom network-on-chip architecture whose topology is optimized for the specific communication requirements of the target device. The optimization objectives include power consumption and resource usage. This paper presents a two-stage synthesis approach consisting of the following: 1) core to router mapping and 2) custom topology and route generation. In particular, it presents an optimal technique for core to router mapping [stage 1)] and a factor-2 approximation algorithm for custom topology generation [stage 2)]. The superior quality of the techniques is established by experimentation with benchmark applications and by comparisons with existing approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008