Flexible Reconfigurable On-chip Networks for Multi-core SoCs
Masoud Oveis-Gharan, Gul N. Khan · 2018
Multi and many-core embedded SoCs (System-on-Chip) provide key solutions to meet the extraordinary demands of current and future applications. This fact becomes critical when the chip design dives to the limitation of sub-nanometer technologies that cannot be shrunk further. Network on Chip (NoC) is a scalable interconnection structure, which can provide efficient solutions for on-chip interconnection problems of SoCs such as re-configurability required for multiple high-performance applications. Recent reconfigurable NoCs improve performance of SoC in exchange of larger chip area and higher power. In this paper, we present a novel high-performance reconfigurable NoC architecture that can improve the overall system performance for various SoC applications. Experimental results provide a comparison with the conventional on-chip interconnection structures to support our claim.