On options for accessing region in NoC
Rickard Holsmark, Shashi Bhusan Kumar · 2006
A popular topology in NoC research is the mesh where nodes are connected in a two dimensional array. Each node constitutes of a resource connected to a router, which is responsible for message routing. To use full advantages of this architecture, the communication facilities should be homogeneous and resources should fit in the tiles/slots. This implies that the tile size should be equal to the size of the largest core in the system. This will lead to enormous inefficiency since there is a large variance in the sizes of cores in a SoC. For example, a large multi-port shared memory core will be much larger as compared to a single function hardware block.