Extending Platform-Based Design to Network on Chip Systems

  • Authors:
  • Juha-Pekka Soininen;Axel Jantsch;Martti Forsell;Antti Pelkonen;Jari Kreku;Shashi Kumar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Exploitation of silicon capacity will requireimprovements in design productivity and more scalablesystem paradigms. Asynchronous message passingnetworks on chip (NOC) have been proposed asbackbones for billion-transistor ASICs. We present anovel layered backbone-platform-system (BPS) designmethodology for development of network-on-chip basedproducts. It combines and extends the distributed,parallel, embedded and platform-based design conceptsin order to manage the diversity and complexity of NOC-basedsystems. The reuse of communication principles invarious platforms, the reuse of platforms in productdifferentiation, and system-level decision-supportmethods are the cornerstones of our methodology. Thepresented mappability estimation and workloadsimulations demonstrate the feasibility of such methods.