A case study of application specific NoC design

Network-on-chip (NoC) is emerging as an effective architecture which address the shortcomings of traditional bus-based System-on-chip (SoC). NoC has been under investigation for several years and many different architecture and various protocols have been proposed. However, compared to the general-purpose NoC, the methodology to design application specific NoC provides greater practical insight. In this paper, we present the design process of application specific NoC. According to this design flow, we design a 4×4 2D mesh platform and give the result of the specific NoC mapped with a OFDM receiver application.