Microarchitecture of Network-on-Chip Routers A Designer's Perspective /

• Main Authors: Dimitrakopoulos, Giorgos (Author), Psarras, Anastasios (Author), Seitanidis, Ioannis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Microprocessors.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Processor Architectures.

This book focuses on the microarchitecture of network-on-chip routers from a designer’s perspective, providing ready-to-use solutions for simple and more sophisticated design cases. All aspects of the design of a network-on-chip router, including flow control, buffering architectures, arbitration an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to network-on-chip design
• Link-level flow control and buffering
• Baseline switching modules and routers
• Arbitration logic
• Pipelined wormhole routers
• Virtual-channel flow control and buffering
• Baseline virtual-channel based switching modules and routers
• High-speed allocators for VC-based routers
• Pipelined virtual-channel-based routers.