Design methodology of dynamically reconfigurable network-on-chip

Abstract

NoC (Network-on-Chip) is inherently suitable to the dynamic partial reconfiguration. DRNoC, combining these two promising technologies, will be a desirable platform for the next generation portable eletronic consuming products. Taking the irregular 2D mesh NoC as a study case, this paper discusses the design methodology of DRNoC, including the topology, router, mapping algorithm, routing algorithm, implementation and simulation of DRNoC. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.