ORB: an on-chip optical ring bus communication architecture for multi-processor systems-on-chip
Proceedings of the 2008 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect
On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect
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Billion Transistor Systems-on-Chip (BTSoCs) present designers with a classic case of the "embarrassment-of-riches" syndrome: with so many devices at one's disposal, designers may be tempted to integrate functionality willy-nilly, with no strategic rethinking of what this level of integration can both afford, as well as achieve. While many advocate "business-asusual" - including ad-hoc integration of functionality to achieve application-specific or domain-dependent designs - I believe BTSoCs present us with some opportunities for a paradigm shift in the architectural strategies and design processes for designing such complex chips. I summarize some key principles and ideas below.