Design of a Dual-Switching Mode NOC Router Microarchitecture

The Network-on-Chip originated from traditional computer network, and the NOC solution can improve the parallel processing and computing capacity of current chips. This paper presents a dual-switching mode NOC router which combines the circuit-switching method and packet-switching method. The micro architecture of this router is introduced, and its switching technology is presented. Comparisons are made between our router and traditional circuit-switching (packet-switching) routers. From the simulation results, our router has better delay/throughput performance.