Electromagnetic-based nanonetworks communication in SoC design

Abstract

Nanocommunication concepts have emerged as a new paradigm that allows nano-processing-elements to communicate using molecular-, acoustic-, mechanical-, or electromagnetic-based techniques. In this paper, the performances of the electromagnetic-based nanocommunication technique as an on-chip communication fabric for SoCs is evaluated. Simulations have been conducted with 2D mesh-like nano-NoC using two routing techniques, flooding and XY routing, and using several traffic patterns, such as Bit-Reversal, Shuffle, Transpose and Uniform. Performance metrics mainly the latency, the throughput and the energy consumption are evaluated and reported to show the behavior of nano-NoC when varying the number of nano-processing-elements and the transmission range.