Title :
Customized Reconfigurable Interconnection Networks for multiple application SOCS
Author :
Fan, Hongbing ; Ernst, Jason ; Wu, Yu-Liang
Author_Institution :
Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, ON
Abstract :
A customized reconfigurable interconnection network (CRIN) refers to a minimal switching network, yielding routing solutions for any element in a pre-given set of routing requirements. The CRIN design problem looks for the best performance and resource-flexibility trade-off between two extreme design contexts ASIC and FPGA. In this paper we give the modeling of this problem for both directed and undirected interconnections. A heuristic algorithm for automatic generation of CRIN is proposed along with its experimental justifications. This study was motivated from the design of reconfigurable systems-on-a-chip for multiple applications.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit interconnections; reconfigurable architectures; switching networks; system-on-chip; ASIC; FPGA; customized reconfigurable interconnection networks; minimal switching network; routing requirements; systems-on-a-chip; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Energy consumption; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit interconnections; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Network-on-a-chip; Power system interconnection; Routing; System-on-a-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2008. FPL 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Heidelberg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1960-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1961-6
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2008.4629991
