SPIN: A Scalable, Packet Switched, On-Chip Micro-Network

  • Authors:
  • Adrijean Adriahantenaina;Herve Charlery;Alain Greiner;Laurent Mortiez;Cesar Albenes Zeferino

  • Affiliations:
  • UPMC/LIP6;UPMC/LIP6;UPMC/LIP6;UPMC/LIP6;UFRGS

  • Venue:
  • DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe: Designers' Forum - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents the SPIN micro-network that is a generic, scalable interconnect architecture for system on chip. The SPIN architecture relies on packet switching and point-to-point bi-directional links between the routers implementing the micro-network. SPIN gives the system designer the simple view of a single shared address space and provides a variable number of VCI compliant communication interfaces for both initiators (masters) and targets (slaves). Performance comparisons between a classical PI-bus based interconnect and the SPIN micro-network are analyzed.