Microarchitecture of Network-on-Chip Routers

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Network-on-Chip Design

   • Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Anastasios Psarras, Ioannis Seitanidis

   Pages 1-10

3. Link-Level Flow Control and Buffering

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   Pages 11-35

4. Baseline Switching Modules and Routers

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   Pages 37-59

5. Arbitration Logic

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   Pages 61-71

6. Pipelined Wormhole Routers

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   Pages 73-91

7. Virtual-Channel Flow Control and Buffering

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   Pages 93-109

8. Baseline Virtual-Channel Based Switching Modules and Routers

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   Pages 111-134

9. High-Speed Allocators for VC-Based Routers

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   Pages 135-147

10. Pipelined Virtual-Channel-Based Routers

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    Pages 149-169

11. Back Matter

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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 step-by-step manner beginning from the basic design principles. Even highly sophisticated design alternatives are categorized and broken down to simpler pieces that can be understood easily and analyzed. This book is an invaluable reference for system, architecture, circuit, and EDA researchers and developers, who are interested in understanding the overall picture of NoC routers' architecture, the associated design challenges, and the available solutions.

• Embedded Systems Design
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Network-on-Chip
• Network-on-Chip Architecture
• NoC
• NoC Router Design
• NoC Router Microarchitecture

• Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

  Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Anastasios Psarras, Ioannis Seitanidis

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