Low power flitwise routing in an unidirectional torus with minimal buffering
Jörg Mische, Theo Ungerer · 2012
State-of-the-art Network on Chips (NoCs) provide a high throughput and low latency by sending packets of data through a mesh topology, using virtual channels and wormhole flow control. The downside of this technology is a high area and energy consumption due to many buffers, large crossbars and a complex arbitration logic within the routers.