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Abstract

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) is dominating now days. The NoC is characterized by the topology, routing, and flow control. The work presents Verilog implementation, modeling and synthesis of 8-bit 4 × 4 crossbar switch for virtual channel router. The crossbar components are widely used in router and switches. A crossbar switch may serve as switching fabric to provide a non blocking network configuration. Mainly crossbar is used as an interconnection network in NoC. Crossbar switch is a fully connected network, where each input is connected to each output. Crossbar switch is of great interest in packet switch designs. In virtual channel router minimum flit size is 8-bit. We have also designed arbitration module called DPA cell and 8 bit fabric module for crossbar. As flit size is 8- bit for virtual channel router we have implemented 8- bit 4 × 4 switch. In this paper rotating round robin arbitration algorithm with the help of DPA had been also implemented Hence our proposed arbiter is suitable for NoC design which needs high speed cross bar switches and router in them.The design is synthesized on Vertex 7 and maximum operating system achieved 1.1 GHz. Using parallel bit data transfer we have archived faster data transmission rates. Critical path delay of 8-bit 4x4 crossbar switch is 4.996ns.