PAPER Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design—Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology Hybrid Wired/Wireless On-Chip Network Design for Application-Specific SoC ∗
Shouyi Yin, Zhen Zhang, L eibo Liu, Shaojun Wei, Non-members · 2012
SUMMARY Hybrid wired/wireless on-chip network is a promising communication architecture for multi-/many-core SoC. For applicationspecific SoC design, it is important to design a dedicated on-chip network architecture according to the application-specific nature. In this paper, we propose a heuristic wireless link allocation algorithm for creating hybrid on-chip network architecture. The algorithm can eliminate the performance bottleneck by replacing multi-hop wired paths by high-bandwidth singlehop long-range wireless links. The simulation results show that the hybrid on-chip network designed by our algorithm improves the performance in