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The intracacies of semiconductor design and layout afford many different kinds of possible layouts when creating networking topologies on SoCs. Specifically, designs need to be amenable to creation on a two-dimension substrate, and as such practically limits the use of some more advanced topologies like hypercubes <ref name="GrotKeckler">Grot and Keckler</ref>.
The intracacies of semiconductor design and layout afford many different kinds of possible layouts when creating networking topologies on SoCs. Specifically, designs need to be amenable to creation on a two-dimension substrate, and as such practically limits the use of some more advanced topologies like hypercubes <ref name="GrotKeckler">Grot and Keckler</ref>.


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On-chip Interconnects

Introduction

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As the number of processors in multiple-processor systems increases, increasing consideration needs to be given to how those processors communicate. With current technology, for a small number of processors shared-memory arrangements are quite effective. However, as the number of processors increases contention for available resources (memory, bus time, etc) increases, negatively impacting performance of the system. However, keeping these processors all on the same physical piece of hardware is convenient and helps performance due to physical proximity. As such, it is desirable to design hardware where many cores are part of the same die while allowing for the performance gains possible with interconnections. Recently there has been more research into these on-chip interconnects, and this article will explore the state of those efforts.

Topologies

The intracacies of semiconductor design and layout afford many different kinds of possible layouts when creating networking topologies on SoCs. Specifically, designs need to be amenable to creation on a two-dimension substrate, and as such practically limits the use of some more advanced topologies like hypercubes <ref name="GrotKeckler">Grot and Keckler</ref>.

Rings

Meshes

Flattened Butterfly

Energy Consumption

Summary

See Also

References

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