Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 304
TOPIC AREA:  SYSTEM LEVEL AND EMBEDDED


   SESSION 49
  Analysis and Optimization Issues in NoC Design
  Chair: Petru Eles - Linkoping Univ., Linkoping, Sweden
  Organizers: Joerg Henkel, Radu Marculescu

  Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) is one of the promising solutions for future multi-billion MPSoCs. To design such systems, the optimization of the communication infrastructure plays a crucial role. The papers selected for this session cover a broad range of techniques and optimization metrics which can support various communication scenarios.

The first two papers improve the on-chip network performance by keeping the resource utilization low. More precisely, link scheduling and flow-control are exploited as means to optimize the overall network behavior. The last two papers present novel on-chip routing techniques which are meant to improve the resource utilization and provide support for fault-tolerant operation in presence of transient and permanent faults.
By attending this session, the audience will get a deep insight into the most stringent issues in communication-centric design that system designers have to deal with in tomorrow's complex MPSoCs.

  49.1   Optimal Link Scheduling on Improving Best-Effort and Guaranteed Services Performance in Network-on-Chip System
  Speaker(s): Lap Fai Leung - Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech., Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Author(s): Lap Fai Leung - Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech., Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chi Ying Tsui - Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech., Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  49.2  Prediction-based Flow Control for Networks-on-Chip Traffic
  Speaker(s): Umit Y. Ogras - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
  Author(s): Umit Y. Ogras - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Radu Marculescu - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
  49.3s  A Multi-Path Routing Strategy with Guaranteed In-Order Packet Delivery and Fault-Tolerance for Networks on Chip
  Speaker(s): Srinivasan Murali - Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
  Author(s): Srinivasan Murali - Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
David Atienza Alonso - LSI-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Luca Benini - Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Giovanni De Micheli - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  49.4s  DyXY - A Proximity Congestion-Aware Deadlock-Free Dynamic Routing Method for Network-on-Chip
  Speaker(s): Wen-Ben Jone - Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  Author(s): Ming Li - Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Qing-An Zeng - Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Wen-Ben Jone - Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH