Networks on Chips: Technology and Tools (Hardcover)

Description

The design of today's semiconductor chips for various applications, such as telecommunications, poses various challenges due to the complexity of these systems. These highly complex systems-on-chips demand new approaches to connect and manage the communication between on-chip processing and storage components and networks on chips (NoCs) provide a powerful solution. This book is the first to provide a unified overview of NoC technology. It includes in-depth analysis of all the on-chip communication challenges, from physical wiring implementation up to software architecture, and a complete classification of their various Network-on-Chip approaches and solutions.

 

Table of Contents

 I. Introduction and Motivation Why on chip networks? State of the art. Taxonomy. Technology trends II. Architectures for NoCs. Direct vs indirect networks. Topologies. Standard architectures and formal properties. Ad hoc networks III. Physical network layer Wiring issues. Physical routing. Signalling. Driver/receiver design. Noise immunity. Shielding. IV. Data-link layer and encoding Medium access control. Data encoding. Error correcting codes: theory and practice. Arbitration issues. V. Switching and Routing in NoCs Packets, flits. Data forwarding schemes. Routing: algorithms and routers. QoS guarantees. VI. Software for NoCs Programming paradims: shared medium vs message passing. Middleware issues. layering and software encapsulation. Application layer issue and network-aware compilation. VII. Tools for NoC Design Analysis and Synthesis of NoCs. Present tools (Bones, Xpipes) and future outlook. VIII. On-Chip multiprocessors High-performance monolitic multiprocessors. Network issues IX. SoCs based on NoCs Examples of other design chips using NoCs.