Reducing Interconnect Cost in NoC through Serialized Asynchronous Links

Authors:
Simon Ogg;Enrico Valli;Crescenzo D'Alessandro;Alex Yakovlev;Bashir Al-Hashimi;Luca Benini
Affiliations:
University of Southampton, UK;University of Bologna;Newcastle University, UK;Newcastle University, UK;University of Southampton, UK;University of Bologna
Venue:
NOCS '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This work investigates the application of serialization as a means of reducing the number of wires in NoC combined with asynchronous links in order to simplify the clocking of the link. Throughput is reduced but savings in routing area and reduction in power could make this attractive.