SoCIN: a parametric and scalable network-on-chip

TLDR

NoCs enable reusability, scalability, and parallel communication while addressing power and clock distribution in future billion‑transistor SoCs, and current research explores diverse NoC features. The paper introduces SoCIN, a scalable network built on a parametric router for synthesizing customized low‑cost NoCs. SoCIN’s architecture and parametric router are described, with synthesis results presented. Synthesis results show that SoCIN can be efficiently implemented for low‑cost NoCs.

Abstract

Networks-on-chip (NoCs) interconnection architectures, to be used in future billion-transistor systems-on-chip (SoCs), meet the major communication requirements of these systems, offering, at the same time, reusability, scalability and parallelism in communication. Furthermore, they cope with other issues like power constraints and clock distribution. Currently, there are a number of research works which explore different features of NoCs. In this paper, we present SoCIN, a scalable network based on a parametric router architecture to be used in the synthesis of customized low cost NoCs. The architecture of SoCIN and its router are described, and some synthesis results are presented.