Guest Editors' Introduction: The Network-on-Chip Paradigm in Practice and Research

  • Authors:
  • Andre Ivanov;Giovanni De Micheli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia;Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The network-on-chip paradigm is an emerging paradigm that effectively addresses and presumably can overcome the many on-chip interconnection and communication challenges that already exist in today's chips or will likely occur in future chips. Effective on-chip implementation of network-based interconnect paradigms requires developing and deploying a whole new set of infrastructure IPs and supporting tools and methodologies. This special issue illustrates how, to date, engineers have successfully deployed NoCs to meet certain very-aggressive specifications. At the same time, the articles reveal many issues and challenges that require solutions if the NoC paradigm will indeed become a panacea or quasi-panacea for tomorrow驴s SoCs.