Efficient space-time noc path allocation based on mutual exclusion and pre-reservation
Samuel Evain, Jean-Philippe Diguet · 2007
This paper focuses on efficient deployment of real applications over an ad hoc NoC. We propose a methodology and a tool to decide the NoC parameters and to generate the path coding within network interfaces for guarantied and best effort communications. The originality of our approach is based on two points. First, we take advantage of mutual exclusive communications. Secondly, our path allocation technique increases success opportunity and reduce buffer cost thanks to a pre-reservation step while taking into account mutual exclusions. We present real implementations for a smart camera application and a 4G telecom scheme.