{"title":"NoC Switch with Credit Based Guaranteed Service Support Qualified for GALS Systems","authors":"T. Kranich, Mladen Berekovic","doi":"10.1109/DSD.2010.30","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a scalable wormhole switch architecture with a credit based guaranteed service implementation. By means of credits for a service guarantee the architecture is also able to deal with mesochronous GALS systems. We extended a regular wormhole switch architecture with a control unit for service configuration during run-time and modified the arbitration policy. These changes result in a marginal area overhead per switch of approximately 4\\%. Thus our new architecture provides a simple solution to implement service guarantees without limitation to a fully synchronous system. We synthesized our design with a 65nm technology and achieved a clock frequency of 1GHz. Due to the high clock frequency we are able to get a channel throughput of more than 4GB/sec whereas the total design complexity is 30k gate equivalents.","PeriodicalId":356885,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2010 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2010.30","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper we present a scalable wormhole switch architecture with a credit based guaranteed service implementation. By means of credits for a service guarantee the architecture is also able to deal with mesochronous GALS systems. We extended a regular wormhole switch architecture with a control unit for service configuration during run-time and modified the arbitration policy. These changes result in a marginal area overhead per switch of approximately 4\%. Thus our new architecture provides a simple solution to implement service guarantees without limitation to a fully synchronous system. We synthesized our design with a 65nm technology and achieved a clock frequency of 1GHz. Due to the high clock frequency we are able to get a channel throughput of more than 4GB/sec whereas the total design complexity is 30k gate equivalents.