Customized Reconfigurable Interconnection Networks for multiple application SOCS

Author

Fan, Hongbing ; Ernst, Jason ; Wu, Yu-Liang

Author_Institution

Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

491

Lastpage

494

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2008.4629991

Filename

4629991