A Topology Design Customization Approach for (STNoC)
Additional information
Authors
Palermo G.,
Mariani G.,
Silvano C.,
Locatelli R.,
Coppola M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2007
Language
English
Abstract
To support high bandwidth SoCs, a communication design flow is necessary for the design space exploration respecting tight design requirements. In order to exploit the benefits introduced by the NoC approach for the on-chip communication, the paper presents a design flow for the core mapping and customization of the network topology applied to STNoC, the Network on-Chip developed by STMicroelectronics. Starting from ring topology, the proposed application-specific flow tries to find a set of customized topologies, optimized in terms of performance and area/energy overhead, by adding links. The generated STNoC custom topologies provide a reduced cost with respect to the spidergon topology.
Conference proceedings
Nano-Nets 07, in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Nets 2007).
Month
September
Meeting place
Catania, Italy
Keywords
application specific design, mapping, network-on-chip (NoC), STNoC, topology customization
