Effects of the NoC architecture in the performance of NoC-based MPSoCs
Douglas Roberto Guimarães Silva, Bruno Oliveira, Fernando Moraes · 2014
The goal of this work is to evaluate the impact of multiple Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectural parameters over the performance of applications running on Multiprocessors Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) using message passing as communication protocol. Nowadays, MPSoCs have so many constraints of performance that bus-based communications are not able to achieve the full potential of MPSoCs, therefore, the adoption of NoCs is a trend for the communication infrastructure in MPSoCs due to their performance compared to bus-based architectures and scalability compared to crossbar-based architectures. However, there is an important gap in the literature with works evaluating the impact of NoC parameters in the performance of applications running in MPSoCs. This work proposes the evaluation of how different NoC parameters affect applications running in a real MPSoC, trying to answer the following question: how does a given NoC parameter affect the performance of the MPSoC?