A novel hardware method to implement a routing algorithm onto Network on Chip

Recently, a Network on Chip (NoC) has attracted much attention for its smart structure and high performance. However, NoC routing algorithms significantly influences the performance and design cost. In this paper, a new hardware method to implement a routing algorithm is proposed. The proposed method is used to replace the general destination-tag method for router design. We simulate and evaluate the router and NoC with proposed method in terms of circuit resource, latency and throughput. The results indicate that the NoC architecture with proposed method is effective in reducing circuit resource, latency and increasing throughput.