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This paper provides an overview of a design space exploration methodology for customizing or tuning a candidate OCI architecture, given a resources budget and independent of a particular application traffic pattern. Three main approaches are introduced. The first approach allows customizing the On- Chip Interconnect by adding strategic long-rang links, while the second consists in customizing the buffer sizes at each switch according to the traffic. The third approach uses a feedback control-based mechanism for dynamic congestion avoidance. Some results are presented to shed more light on the usefulness of these approaches for System-on-Chip design.

Towards a design space exploration methodology for system-on-chip

Universite de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard Rue Thierry Mieg, 90010 Belfort Cedex France

International University of Rabat ParcTechnopolis, 11 100 Sala el Jadida, Morocco

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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This paper provides an overview of a design space exploration methodology for customizing or tuning a candidate OCI architecture, given a resources budget and...

Towards a design space exploration methodology for system-on-chip

Publié en ligne: 09 avr. 2014

Pages: 101 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2014-0008

Mots clés
System-on-Chip, On-chip interconnect, simulation, performance evaluation, design-space exploration

© by A. Chariete

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Towards a design space exploration methodology for system-on-chip

Publié en ligne: 09 avr. 2014

Pages: 101 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2014-0008

Mots clésSystem-on-Chip, On-chip interconnect, simulation, performance evaluation, design-space exploration

© by A. Chariete

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mots clés
System-on-Chip, On-chip interconnect, simulation, performance evaluation, design-space exploration