Toward a More Realistic Performance Evaluation of Interconnection Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Addressing the system-on-a-chip interconnect woes through communication-based design
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Route packets, not wires: on-chip inteconnection networks
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
ARM Architecture Reference Manual
ARM Architecture Reference Manual
StepNP: A System-Level Exploration Platform for Network Processors
IEEE Design & Test
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A hierarchical modeling framework for on-chip communication architectures
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Microarchitectural exploration with Liberty
Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Orion: a power-performance simulator for interconnection networks
Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Transaction level modeling: an overview
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Analyzing On-Chip Communication in a MPSoC Environment
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
×pipesCompiler: A Tool for Instantiating Application Specific Networks on Chip
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
SPIN: A Scalable, Packet Switched, On-Chip Micro-Network
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe: Designers' Forum - Volume 2
Modeling and description of embedded processors for the development of software tools
Modeling and description of embedded processors for the development of software tools
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In multiprocessor-based SoCs, optimizing the communication architecture is often as important, if not more important, than optimizing the computation architecture. While there are mature platforms and techniques for the modeling and evaluation of architectures of processing elements, the same is not true for the communication architectures. This article presents an application-driven retargetable prototyping platform that fills this gap. This environment aims to facilitate the design exploration of the communication subsystem through application-level execution-driven simulations and quantitative analysis. Based on an analysis of a wide range of on-chip communication architectures, we describe how a specific hierarchical class library can be used to develop new on-chip communication architectures, or variants of existing ones with relatively little incremental effort. We demonstrate this through three case studies including two commercial on-chip bus systems and an on-chip packet switching network. Here we show that, through careful analysis and construction, it is possible for the modeling environment to support the common features of these architectures as part of the library and permit instantiation of the individual architectures as variants of the library design. Consequently, system-level design choices regarding the communication architecture can be made with high confidence in the early stages of design. In addition to improving design quality, this methodology also results in significantly shortening design-time.