Synthesis of NoC Interconnects for Custom MPSoC Architectures

Abstract

As technology continues to demand high performance, low power, and integration density, NoC system designers consider multiple aspects during the design phase. This paper addresses these issues and presents an NoC design methodology for generating high quality interconnects for custom Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) architectures. Our design methodology incorporates the main objectives of power and performance during topology synthesis while employing both analytical and simulation based automated techniques. A rendezvous interaction performance analysis method is presented where Layered Queuing Network models are invoked to observe the asynchronous interactions between NoC components and identify possible performance degradation in the on-chip network. Several experiments are conducted using various SoC benchmark applications to compare the power and performance outcomes of our proposed technique.