Comparing energy and latency of asynchronous and synchronous NoCs for embedded SoCs

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Engineering
Department Electrical & Computer Engineering
Creator Stevens, Kenneth
Other Author Gebhardt, Daniel; You, Junbok
Title Comparing energy and latency of asynchronous and synchronous NoCs for embedded SoCs
Date 2010
Description Power consumption of on-chip interconnects is a primary concern for many embedded system-on-chip (SoC) applications. In this paper, we compare energy and performance characteristics of asynchronous (clockless) and synchronous network on-chip implementations, optimized for a number of SoC designs. We adapted the COSI-2.0 framework with ORION 2.0 router and wire models for synchronous network generation. Our own tool, ANetGen, specifies the asynchronous network by determining the topology with simulated-annealing and router locations with force-directed placement. It uses energy and delay models from our 65 nm bundled-data router design. SystemC simulations varied traffic burstiness using the self-similar b-model. Results show that the asynchronous network provided lower median and maximum message latency, especially under bursty traffic, and used far less router energy with a slight overhead for the interrouter wires.
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Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
First Page 115
Last Page 122
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Gebhardt, D., You, J., & Stevens, K. (2010). Comparing energy and latency of asynchronous and synchronous NoCs for embedded SoCs. Fourth International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS), 115-22. May.
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