Abstract:
This paper presents a flexible mesh router architecture using synchronous parallel pipeline worm-switching supporting unicast and multicast services. A very flexible mech...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper presents a flexible mesh router architecture using synchronous parallel pipeline worm-switching supporting unicast and multicast services. A very flexible mechanism to manage broadcast-flow to share the communication link in on-chip network is proposed. The proposed mechanism guarantees, that all flits in multicast packets can be accepted in their multiple destination nodes. Our network-on-chip (NoC) is implemented based on modular synthesizable VHDL objects. The architecture is flexible to design new NoC prototypes. Area overhead to update the NoC from unicast to multicast with the same routing algorithm is only about 15%.
Published in: 2008 Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Date of Conference: 10-14 March 2008
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 April 2008
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