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Characterizing the Cell EIB On-Chip Network
September/October 2007 (vol. 27 no. 5)
pp. 6-14
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Thomas William Ainsworth, Timothy Mark Pinkston, "Characterizing the Cell EIB On-Chip Network," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 6-14, September/October, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2007.81,
author = {Thomas William Ainsworth and Timothy Mark Pinkston},
title = {Characterizing the Cell EIB On-Chip Network},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {27},
number = {5},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2007},
pages = {6-14},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2007.81},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Micro
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KW - interconnection architectures
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Thomas William Ainsworth, Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Timothy Mark Pinkston, University of Southern California
On-chip network design has become an increasingly important component of computer architecture. The Cell Broadband Engine's Element Interconnect Bus, with its four data rings and common command bus for end-to-end transaction control, interconnects more nodes than most commercial on-chip networks. To help understand on-chip network design and performance issues in the context of a commercial multicore chip, this article evaluates the EIB network using conventional latency and throughput characterization methods.

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Index Terms:
interconnection architectures, multiple data stream architectures, multicore architectures, multiprocessors, on-chip interconnection networks
Citation:
Thomas William Ainsworth, Timothy Mark Pinkston, "Characterizing the Cell EIB On-Chip Network," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 6-14, Sept.-Oct. 2007, doi:10.1109/MM.2007.81
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