Impact of design parameters on performance of adaptive Network-on-Chips

Abstract

In current embedded systems the communications infrastructure requires different Quality-of-Services (QoS) depending on the application domain. An adaptive Network-on-Chip (NoC) can adapt dynamically its characteristics to provide QoS requirements and flexible communication. Designing such a NoC is very time consuming. In this paper we evaluate the impact of NoC design parameters on the performances of an adaptive NoCs. The results on latency and throughput were evaluated using the Noxim simulator.