Wormhole Routing with Virtual Channels using Adaptive Rate Control for Network-on-Chip (NoC)

Authors:
Ioannis Nousias;Tughrul Arslan
Affiliations:
University of Edinburgh, UK;Institute for System Level Integration, UK
Venue:
AHS '06 Proceedings of the first NASA/ESA conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
Year:
2006

Citing 0
Cited 4

EMBRACE: emulating biologically-inspired architectures on hardware

NN'08 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Neural Networks
Design of an Area-Efficient and Low-Power NoC Architecture Using a Hybrid Network Topology

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
A reconfigurable and biologically inspired paradigm for computation using network-on-chip and spiking neural networks

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - Selected papers from ReCoSoc08
Quarter Load Threshold (QLT) flow control for wormhole switching in mesh-based Network-on-Chip

Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach in realizing Virtual Channels tailored for Network on Chip implementations. The technique makes use of a flow control mechanism based on adaptive input rate control where the required buffer size is independent of the number of channels and the packet size. The resulting implementation requires only 3% of the memory space used in a conventional implementation of virtual channels. The efficient use of memory storage does also deliver performance improvements that can be up to 15% for a normal network configuration.