MACRON: The NoC-Based Many-Core Parallel Processing Platform and Its Applications in 4G Communication Systems

Author

Xiang Ling ; Yiou Chen ; Zhiliang Yu ; Shihua Chen ; Xiaodong Wang ; Gui Liang

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Commun., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2015

fDate

4-6 March 2015

Firstpage

396

Lastpage

403

Abstract

The increasing demand of computation capacity has made many-core parallel processing (MPP) a compelling choice for computation-intensive applications. The networks-on-chip (NoC) architecture is an effective way to interconnect dozens of processing cores, while the logic circuits and the actual performance need to be verified in specific platform. We proposed and implemented the MACRON platform to provide verification for complicated applications based on NoC architecture by coordinating the software tool and the hardware devices closely. In MACRON, the virtual output queue with look-ahead routing is proposed to reduce the transmission delay through the NoC router. The heterogeneous processing elements: vector processor core, scalar processor core and accelerator core are designed, thus a thorough ´soft´ signal processing can be approached. A real-time 4G wireless communication system based on NoC is demonstrated on this MACRON platform.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; logic circuits; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; network-on-chip; 4G communication systems; MACRON platform; MPP; NoC-based many-core parallel processing platform; accelerator core; computation capacity demand; logic circuits; look-ahead routing; networks-on-chip architecture; real-time 4G wireless communication system; scalar processor core; vector processor core; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Ports (Computers); Routing; Signal processing algorithms; Switches; Vector processors; FPGA; digital signal process; many-core architecture; networks-on-chip; vector processor; wireless communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2015 23rd Euromicro International Conference on

Conference_Location

Turku

ISSN

1066-6192

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDP.2015.86

Filename

7092751