An efficient hardware routing algorithms for NoC

Networks on Chip (NoC) has been widely discussed for its smart structure and high performance. Routing algorithms significantly influence design cost and system performance of NoC. In this paper, a new hardware method called Final-Destination-Tag (FDT) is proposed to improve the original Destination-Tag (DT) method for implementing different routing algorithms. Compared with the DT method, the proposed FDT method could reduce the header size of the packet. We evaluate NoC with this proposed method in terms of circuit resource, average latency, max latency, average throughput and power consumption. The results indicate that the proposed method is effective in increasing throughput and reducing circuit resource, latency and power consumption for NoC.