An analytical method for evaluating network-on-chip performance

  • Authors:
  • Sahar Foroutan;Yvain Thonnart;Richard Hersemeule;Ahmed Jerraya

  • Affiliations:
  • ST-Microelectronics and CEA-Leti;CEA-Leti;ST-Microelectronics;CEA-Leti

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Today, due to the increasing demand for more and more complex applications in the consumer electronic market segment, Systems-on-Chip consist of many processing elements and become larger and larger. While on-chip system designers must be able to get fast and accurate communication performance analysis for such huge systems, the simulation-based approaches are not adequate anymore. Addressing the increasing need for early performance evaluation in NoC-based system design flow, this paper presents a generic analytical method to estimate communication latencies and link-buffer utilizations for a given NoC architecture with a given application mapped on it. The accuracy of our method is experimentally compared with the results obtained from Cycle-Accurate SystemC simulations.