Tutorial: Introduction to Interconnection Networks from System Area Network to Network on Chips

Interconnection networks connect cab nets in the floors, boards in a cab net, chips on a board, and moudles inside the chip. Since protcols and network structures are not fixed unlike LAN or WAN, there are wide viriety on topologies, routing, flow control and media. As an introduction of two other tutorial sessions ("Future Low-latency Networks for High Performance Computing" and "Research Challenges on 2-D and 3-D Network-on-Chips"), typical interconnection networks and techniques around them are explained with recent examples.