Using NoC routers as processing elements

  • Authors:
  • Sílvio Fernandes;Bruno C. Oliveira;Ivan Saraiva Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido, UFERSA/DCEN, Mossoró -- Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN/CCET/DIMAP, Natal -- Brasil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN/CCET/DIMAP, Natal -- Brasil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Symposium on Integrated Circuits and System Design: Chip on the Dunes
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The integration technology has increased at the point where the development of Multi-Core processor architectures is a market reality nowadays. In this scenario, the interconnection network has a critical function when the number of cores increases, becoming impossible to use bus-based solutions. This paper approaches this problem with a new NoC-based architecture and a new computation mode. It proposes the utilization of network-onchip not only as an interconnection network but as well the processing datapath, which has great power of parallelism.