Design and realization of 3D NOC multicast router base on multicast rotational routing arithmetic

Traditional 3D NoC router may encounter the situations of congestion and hot spot. And it also doesn´t have the function of multicast. In this paper, we present a new routing arithmetic called Multicast Rotational Routing Arithmetic (MRRA). It can handle several destination addresses at the same time, recombine packets, sent the same data to the different destination nodes, and avoid the congestion. The proposed algorithm is implemented by the new multicast 3D NoC router which is also proposed in this paper. The 3D NoC router is designed in Verilog HDL, simulated by Modelsim, synthesized and prototyped by Synplify and FPGA respectively. The experiment results show that the multicast router of MRRA can achieve a very good performance in terms of throughput and delay. The increased area utilization also can be tolerated.