Floorplanning and topology generation for application-specific network-on-chip

  • Authors:
  • Bei Yu;Sheqin Dong;Song Chen;Satoshi Goto

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan;Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Network-on-Chip(NoC) architectures have been proposed as a promising alternative to classical bus-based communication architectures. In this paper, we propose a two phases framework to solve application-specific NoCs topology generation problem. At floorplanning phase, we carry out partition driven floorplanning. At post-floorplanning phase, a heuristic method and a min-cost max-flow algorithm is used to insert switches and network interfaces. Finally, we allocate paths to minimize power consumption. The experimental results show our algorithm is effective for power saving.