The performance evaluation of a 3D torus network using partial link-sharing method in NoC router buffer

Fukase, Naohisa and Miura, Yasuyuki and Watanabe, Shigeyoshi and Rahman, M.M. Hafizur (2017) The performance evaluation of a 3D torus network using partial link-sharing method in NoC router buffer. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E100D (10). pp. 2478-2492. ISSN 0916-8532

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Abstract

The high performance network-on-chip (NoC) router using minimal hardware resources to minimize the layout area is very essential for NoC design. In this paper, we have proposed a memory sharing method of a wormhole routed NoC architecture to alleviate the area overhead of a NoC router. In the proposed method, a memory is shared by multiple physical links by using a multi-port memory. In this paper, we have proposed a partial link-sharing method and evaluated the communication performance using the proposed method. It is revealed that the resulted communication performance by the proposed methods is higher than that of the conventional method, and the progress ratio of the 3D-torus network is higher than that of 2D-torus network. It is shown that the improvement of communication performance using partial link sharing method is achieved with slightly increase of hardware cost. Copyright © 2017 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	6724/63092
Uncontrolled Keywords:	interconnection network, network-on-chip (NoC), router, multiport memory
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) > T10.5 Communication of technical information
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr. M.M. Hafizur Rahman
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2018 14:18
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2018 14:19
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/63092

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