Evaluating NoC communication backbones with simulation
Rikard Thid, Mikael Millberg, Axel Jantsch · 2003
This paper describes a Network on Chip simulatorthat was developed to evaluate our NoC architecture Nostrum.It is shown how SystemC’s features for communicationrefinement is used to make a highly flexible simulator.The simulator is reconfigurable so that it is possibleto try different NoC platforms and different mappingsof workloads. In addition to the modeling of our Nostrumarchitecture, a bus-based architecture is modeled aswell, and the performance for a simple workload modelis compared.