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- Holsmark, Rickard, 1970-
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Deadlock Free Routing in Mesh Networks on Chip with Regions
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There is a seemingly endless miniaturization of electronic components, which has enabled designers to build sophisticated computing structureson silicon chips. Consequently, electronic systems are continuously improving with new and more advanced functionalities. Design complexity ofthese Systems on Chip (SoC) is reduced by the use of pre-designed cores. However, several problems related to the interconnection of coresremain. Network on Chip (NoC) is a new SoC design paradigm, which targets the interconnect problems using classical network concepts. Still,SoC cores show large variance in size and functionality, whereas several NoC benefits relate to regularity and homogeneity. This thesis studies some network aspects which are characteristic to NoC systems. One is the issue of area wastage in NoC due to cores of varioussizes. We elaborate on using oversized regions in regular mesh NoC and identify several new design possibilities. Adverse effects of regions oncommunication are outlined and evaluated by simulation. Deadlock freedom is an important region issue, since it affects both the usability and performance of routing algorithms. The concept of faultyblocks, used in deadlock free fault-tolerant routing algorithms has similarities with rectangular regions. We have improved and adopted one suchalgorithm to provide deadlock free routing in NoC with regions. This work also offers a methodology for designing topology agnostic, deadlockfree, highly adaptive application specific routing algorithms. The methodology exploits information about communication among tasks of anapplication. This is used in the analysis of deadlock freedom, such that fewer deadlock preventing routing restrictions are required. A comparative study of the two proposed routing algorithms shows that the application specific algorithm gives significantly higher performance.But, the fault-tolerant algorithm may be preferred for systems requiring support for general communication. Several extensions to our work areproposed, for example in areas such as core mapping and efficient routing algorithms. The region concept can be extended for supporting reuse ofa pre-designed NoC as a component in a larger hierarchical NoC.
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- Horn, Wolfgang, et al.
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Hardware synthesis of an ATM multiplexer from SDL to VHDL : a case study
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Ingår i: VLSI ’99. Proceedings IEEE Computer Society Workshop On. ; , s. 100-105
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hardware synthesis of SDL models poses several problems, because SDL uses Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) paradigm for system specification. It allows dynamic processes and its semantics assume an infinite FIFO buffer at the input of each process for inter-process communication. We had presented previously a methodology and later refined it for efficient hardware synthesis from SDL specification. In this paper we describe the experience of applying this methodology to a large case study. The case study is an ATM Multiplexer which exhibits a complex control flow and uses large tables. It was modelled using multiple processes. Hardware synthesis was carried out using the methodology starting from its SDL model. The results show that the methodology leads to a correct and efficient hardware implementation. In particular, the methodology avoids use of costly FIFO buffers for implementing inter-process communication and allows sharing of hardware resources among various instances of the same process. The final implementation also meets the 155 Mbit/sec data rate performance requirement
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- Jantsch, Axel, et al.
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Networks on Chip
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Ingår i: Workshop at the European Solid State Circuits Conference.
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