On a web-graph-based micronetwork architecture for SoCs

From System-on-chip to Network-on-chip, the main dissimilarity is replacing the bus with the network. How connect, how formative network function is related to topology structure. In this paper we propose a topology structure for NoC, and compare it with mesh, torus, the fat tree, octagon , spidergon topology networks by five kinds of mainly properties : node degree, network diameter, connectivity, the average most short-circuit path and the average shortest wire length. Experiment results show that this topology has better performance on cost/performance layout.

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