A ULTRA-LOW POWER ROUTER DESIGN FOR NETWORK ON CHIP
Alaaudeen K.M, Vengatesh Kumar S
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering,
Mohammed Sathak Engineering College, Ramnad, TN, India
ABSTRACT
The design of more complex systems becomes an increasingly difficult task because of different issues
related to latency, design reuse, throughput and cost that has to be considered while designing. In
Real-time applications there are different communication needs among the cores. When NoCs (Networks
on chip) are the means to interconnect the cores, use of some techniques to optimize the
communication are indispensable. From the performance point of view, large buffer sizes ensure
performance during different applications execution. But unfortunately, these same buffers are the main
responsible for the router total power dissipation. Another aspect is that by sizing buffers for the worst case
latency incurs in extra dissipation for the mean case, which is much more frequent. Reconfigurable router
architecture for NOC is designed for processing elements communicate over a second
communication level using direct-links between another node elements. Several possibilities to use the
router as additional resources to enhance complexity of modules are presented. The reconfigurable router
is evaluated in terms of area, speed and latencies. The proposed router was described in VHDL and used
the ModelSim tool to simulate the code. Analyses the average power consumption, area, and frequency
results to a standard cell library using the Design Compiler tool. With the reconfigurable router it was
possible to reduce the congestion in the network, while at the same time reducing power dissipation and
improving energy.
KEYWORDS
Buffer, Latency, Network on chip, reconfigurable router, Throughput
Original Sources URL:http://airccse.com/ijaceee/papers/6118ijaceee02.pdf
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