A complete 4G radiocommunication application mapping onto a 2D mesh NoC architecture

Complex application specific SoC are often based on the network-on-chip (NoC) approach. NoC are under investigation since several years and many architectures have been proposed. Generic NoC are often proposed with their synthesis tool in order to rapidly tailor a solution for a specific application implementation. The optimized mapping of cores on a NoC and the optimized NoC configuration in terms of topology, FIFO and link sizes for instance is a new research area which is investigated deeply now. Validation and evaluation of solutions is often conducted through simulations. Comparisons between proposed optimization approaches are difficult as they use their own evaluative application. Benchmarking is a classical solution to normalize comparisons. We are proposing in this paper to evaluate the performance of a NoC architecture mapped with a benchmarking 4G radio communication application. We illustrate these performances with a methodology based on transaction level model (TLM) SystemC simulations