NoC Process Elements Mapping Using Genetic Algorithm
Lin Zheng · 2008
Traditional bus-based SoC architecture and methodology become data exchange bottleneck in complex multi-processor system. New trend of Network on Chip provides a viable solution. 2D-mesh is a widely used NoC topology. This paper studies 2D-mesh network optimization by way of minimizing communication power consumption,which is very import to the system performance. The authors first establish a 2-mesh communication power consumption model, formulate the problem of energy-aware mapping, and then apply genetic algorithm on the model. The result is a fast converged and optimized solution.