Partitioning the Network-on-Chip to Enable Virtualization on Many-Core Processors

• Technological advances have increased the transistor density, thereby ushering in multi- and more recently many-core systems, distinguished by the presence of hundreds of cores on a single chip. For such a platform, the Network-on-Chip (NoC) has emerged as a scalable and efficient interconnect fabric to realize the communication across an ever increasing number of processor cores, memories, and specialized IP blocks both on- and off-chip. In this paper, we highlighted some key problems in NoC based architectures that must be addressed before the deployment of real-time applications onto these platforms becomes possible. A paradigm shift from function centric to data and communication centric approaches is required. Combining hardware and software based flow-regulation seems to be the only way to ensure that NoCs go beyond the best-effort service and address the requirements of diverse applications.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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many-corereal-timeNetwork-on-Chiptraffic shaping

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