Network Interface Architecture and Design for 2D/3D NoCs

Abstract

Deep sub-micron technologies have enabled the implementation of new application-specific embedded multicore SoC architectures that integrate multiple software programmable processors and dedicated hardware components together onto a single chip. Recently, these application-specific architectures are emerging as a key design solution for today’s design challenges, which are being driven by emerging applications in the areas of: wireless communication, broadband/distributed networking, distributed computing, and multimedia computing. Despite these new opportunities, designers of these systems are currently confronted with the enormously difficult task of designing these complex heterogeneous multi-core architectures.