This work investigates the application of serialization as a means of reducing the number of wires in NoC combined with asynchronous links in order to simplify the clocking of the link. Throughput is reduced but savings in routing area and reduction in power could make this attractive.
Citation:
Simon Ogg, Enrico Valli, Crescenzo D'Alessandro, Alex Yakovlev, Bashir Al-Hashimi, Luca Benini, "Reducing Interconnect Cost in NoC through Serialized Asynchronous Links," nocs, pp.219, First International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS'07), 2007