Microarchitecture of network-on-chip routers : a designer's perspective
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (Author), Anastasios Psarras (Author), Ioannis Seitanidis (Author)
This book provides a unified overview of network-on-chip router micro-architecture, the corresponding design opportunities and challenges, and existing solutions to overcome these challenges. The discussion focuses on the heart of a NoC, the NoC router, and how it interacts with the rest of the system. Coverage includes both basic and advanced design techniques that cover the entire router design space including router organization, flow control, pipelined operation, buffering architectures, as well as allocators' structure and algorithms. Router micro-architectural options are presented in a
eBook, English, 2014
Springer, New York, NY, 2014