Modeling and Evaluation of a NoC-Internet Interface

A bridge will be required to interface a multi-core SoC, built using NoC paradigm, to the external world through Internet. In this paper we discuss and compare options for implementation of such a bridge. We have modeled one option in order to study the performance of the bridge with respect to buffer sizes and communication traffic rates. Our study shows that small buffer in the bridge is sufficient to achieve a bandwidth of at least 10 Mbits/s.