MICRO

Complex information and communication systems have been studied for a long time. Many approaches and methodologies exist to date. Amongst the properties of interest in those studies the prominent place is occupied by the property of systems to stay ...

The size of systems on a chip is limited by our ability to design and fabricate such systems, staying within the appropriate costs depending on the application. In this paper, we propose a divide-and-conquer approach, Quilt Packaging®, to be utilized ...

Network-on-chip (NoC) is a communication paradigm that has emerged to tackle different on-chip challenges and satisfy different demands in terms of high performance and economical interconnect implementation. However, merely metal based interconnect ...

Designing large-scale heterogeneous Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) for irregular applications often involves sophisticated optimization techniques that lead to unstructured networks. Such networks are hard to understand because they were not built with common ...

There is still a significant gap between the optical network-on-chip (NoC) concept and a mature interconnect technology with practical relevance. Current research aims at bridging this gap by evolving basic optical components and by developing ad-hoc ...

This paper proposes a new method for designing adaptive routing algorithms for 3D networks-on-chip (NoCs). This method is based on extending the existing 2D turn model adaptive routing to a 3D scenario. A 3-D plane-balanced approach with maximal degree ...

In this paper, we propose and analyze a heterogeneous Three Dimensional (3D) Network-on-Chip (NoC) design based on the optimized placement of vertical connections. NoC paradigm is expected to be the solution of future multicore processors, while 3D NoC ...

To support communication among hundreds of cores on a chip, on-chip communication must be well organized. In the embedded systems using such a chip, the communication patterns can be profiled off-line and routing can be well planned. Source routing has ...

This paper presents the position-based weighted round-robin arbitration for equality of service in many-core network-on-chips employing a deterministic routing algorithm. We concentrate on the network saturation induced by the hot-spot traffic that ...

In this paper we propose a model for the design of Networks-on-Chip (NoC) links that takes into considerations the systematic and random effects of process variability. The model predicts the delay variations of each NoC link in a floor-plan. Delay ...

State-of-the-art Network on Chips (NoCs) provide a high throughput and low latency by sending packets of data through a mesh topology, using virtual channels and wormhole flow control. The downside of this technology is a high area and energy ...