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Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'05) Volume 2
?pipes Lite: A Synthesis Oriented Design Library For Networks on Chips
Munich, Germany
March 07-March 11
ISBN: 0-7695-2288-2
Stergios Stergiou, Stanford University, CA
Federico Angiolini, University of Bologna, Italy
Salvatore Carta, University of Cagliari, Italy
Luigi Raffo, University of Cagliari, Italy
Davide Bertozzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Giovanni De Micheli, Stanford University, CA
The limited scalability of current bus topologies for Systems on Chips (SoCs) dictates the adoption of Networks on Chips (NoCs) as a scalable interconnection scheme. Current SoCs are highly heterogeneous in nature, denoting homogeneous, preconfigured NoCs as inefficient drop-in alternatives.
While highly parametric, fully synthesizeable (soft) NoC building blocks appear as a good match for heterogeneous MPSoC architectures, the impact of instantiation-time flexibility on performance, power and silicon cost has not been quantified yet. This work details ?pipes Lite, a design flow for automatic generation of heterogeneous NoCs. ?pipes Lite is based on highly customizable, high frequency and low latency NoC modules, that are fully synthesizeable. Synthesis results provide with modules that are directly comparable, if not better, than the current published state-of-the-art NoCs in terms of area, power, latency and target frequency of operation measurements.
Citation:
Stergios Stergiou, Federico Angiolini, Salvatore Carta, Luigi Raffo, Davide Bertozzi, Giovanni De Micheli, "?pipes Lite: A Synthesis Oriented Design Library For Networks on Chips," date, vol. 2, pp.1188-1193, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'05) Volume 2, 2005
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