Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures

Traditionally, design space exploration for Systems—on—Chip (SoCs) has focused on the computational aspects of the problem at hand. However, as the number of components on a single chip and their performance continue to increase, the communication architecture plays a major role in the area, performance and energy consumption of the overall system. As a result, a shift from computation—based to communication—based design becomes mandatory. Towards this end, network—on—chip (NoC) communicati...