A Shared Self-Compacting Buffer for Network-On-Chip Systems

In this paper we present a novel shared buffer scheme for systems on chip applications that require an interconnection network. The proposed scheme is based on a dynamically allocated multi queue self-compacting buffer. Two virtual channels shared the same buffer space. This in turn takes advantage of the available space. The proposed scheme outperforms existing approaches. In addition the scheme has similar performance using only half of the buffer size used in other traditional implementations.