CSC/ECE 506 Spring 2012/12b sb
On-chip interconnects
Introduction
Why on-chip interconnects
Driven by continuing scaling of Moore’s law, chip multiprocessors and systems-on-a-chip are expected to grow the core count from dozens today to hundreds in the near future. On-chip interconnects are attractive due to their regularity and modular design, which can lead to better routability, electrical characteristics and fault tolerance.
Topologies
Architectures
Ongoing research
References
[1] B. Grot and S. W. Keckler. Scalable on-chip interconnect topologies. 2nd Workshop on Chip Multiprocessor Memory Systems and Interconnects, 2008.
[2] Mirza-Aghatabar, M.; Koohi, S.; Hessabi, S.; Pedram, M.; , "An Empirical Investigation of Mesh and Torus NoC Topologies Under Different Routing Algorithms and Traffic Models," Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2007. DSD 2007. 10th Euromicro Conference on , vol., no., pp.19-26, 29-31 Aug. 2007
[3] Ying Ping Zhang; Taikyeong Jeong; Fei Chen; Haiping Wu; Nitzsche, R.; Gao, G.R.; , "A study of the on-chip interconnection network for the IBM Cyclops64 multi-core architecture," Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International , vol., no., pp. 10 pp., 25-29 April 2006
[4] David Wentzlaff, Patrick Griffin, Henry Hoffmann, Liewei Bao, Bruce Edwards, Carl Ramey, Matthew Mattina, Chyi-Chang Miao, John F. Brown III, and Anant Agarwal. 2007. On-Chip Interconnection Architecture of the Tile Processor. IEEE Micro 27, 5 (September 2007), 15-31.