Flow oriented routing for NOCS

Several NoC routing schemes proposals targeting overall performance optimization are available in the literature. However, such proposals do not differentiate the application flows. The goal here is to demonstrate that adaptive routing algorithms can be used in flows with temporal constraints, enabling an enhanced degree of path exploration. The main contribution of this work is to expose the routing algorithm at the IP level. Results show gains in latency, throughput and jitter for hotspot scenarios, with minimal area overhead.