Dai Bui and Alessandro Pinto and Edward A. Lee

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-59

May 8, 2009

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-59.pdf

Game, multimedia, consumer and control applications demand low power and high performance computing platforms capable of providing real-time services. Multi-core architectures, supported by on-chip networks, are emerging as scalable solutions to fulfill these requirements. However, the increasing number of concurrent applications running on these platforms, and the time-varying nature of their communications give rise to unpredictable delays.

We propose simple and flexible on-chip protocol and architecture that provide application level communication services with end-to-end timing guarantees. We prove the correctness of our protocol using analytical models and we validate our implementation using detailed simulations.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Bui:EECS-2009-59,
    Author= {Bui, Dai and Pinto, Alessandro and Lee, Edward A.},
    Title= {On-time Network On-Chip: Analysis and Architecture},
    Year= {2009},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-59.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2009-59},
    Abstract= {Game, multimedia, consumer and control applications demand low power and high performance computing platforms capable of providing real-time services.  Multi-core architectures, supported by on-chip networks, are emerging as scalable solutions to fulfill these requirements. However, the increasing number of concurrent applications running on these platforms, and the time-varying nature of their communications give rise to unpredictable delays.

We propose simple and flexible on-chip protocol and architecture that provide application level communication services with end-to-end timing guarantees. We prove the correctness of our protocol using analytical models and we validate our implementation using detailed simulations.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Pinto, Alessandro 
%A Lee, Edward A. 
%T On-time Network On-Chip: Analysis and Architecture
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2009
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