Challenges and Promising Results in NoC Prototyping Using FPGAs

Author

Ogras, Umit Y. ; Marculescu, Radu ; Lee, Hyung Gyu ; Choudhary, Puru ; Marculescu, Diana ; Kaufman, Michael ; Nelson, Peter

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh

Volume

27

Issue

5

fYear

2007

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

95

Abstract

Although a significant amount of theoretical work supports the potential of NoC architectures, such results need to be demonstrated by actual implementations before the NoC paradigm becomes a reality. Besides demonstrating the feasibility of the overall approach, prototyping enables accurate evaluation of power, performance, area, and various design trade-offs. This article presents four NoC prototypes, discusses the challenges associated with their design, and assesses the potential of the NoC approach.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; logic design; network-on-chip; FPGA; NoC architecture; NoC design; NoC prototyping; Area measurement; Character generation; Field programmable gate arrays; Network-on-a-chip; Optimization; Power generation; Prototypes; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Virtual prototyping; FPGAs; computer system implementation; computer systems organization; interconnection network; network on chip;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2007.4378786

Filename

4378786