A unified approach to constrained mapping and routing on network-on-chip architectures

M.A. Hansson, K.G.W. Goossens, A. Radulescu

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Abstract

One of the key steps in Network-on-Chip (NoC) based design is spatial mapping of cores and routing of the communication between those cores. Known solutions to the mapping and routing problem first map cores onto a topology and then route communication, using separated and possibly conflicting objective functions. In this paper we present a unified single-objective algorithm, called Unified MApping, Routing and Slot allocation (UMARS). As the main contribution we show how to couple path selection, mapping of cores and TDMA time-slot allocation such that the network required to meet the constraints of the application is minimized. The time-complexity of UMARS is low and experimental results indicate a run-time only 20% higher than that of path selection alone. We apply the algorithm to an MPEG decoder System-on-Chip (SoC), reducing area by 33%, power by 35% and worst-case latency by a factor four over a traditional multi-step approach. Copyright 2005 ACM.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCODES+ISSS 2005 : International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis ; September 18 - 21, 2005, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages75-80
ISBN (Print)1-59593-161-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and Systems Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2005) - New Jersey, United States
Duration: 18 Sept 200521 Sept 2005
Conference number: 3

Conference

Conference3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and Systems Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2005)
Abbreviated titleCODES+ISSS 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Jersey
Period18/09/0521/09/05

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