Design of Network Interface for Networks-on-Chip

An efficient design of Network Interface(NI) is proposed for the Networks-on-Chip(NoC) with two-channel routers.It is compatible of the AMBA protocol,and can choose the communication type according to the request of IP cores.It hides the communication detail to the IP core,for the sake of simplification of the software,and it can take full advantage of the two-channel router which has separate data packet channel and control packet channel.The area of the NI after synthesis is only 0.3 mm2 in SMIC 0.13 μm technology.