Fuse-N: Framework for Unified Simulation Environment for network-on-chip

Authors

A. Raina, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Venkatesan Muthukumar, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

4-27-2009

Publication Title

ITNG 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

First page number:

871

Last page number:

876

Abstract

Current uni-processor centric modeling methodology does not address the new design challenges introduced by MPSoCs, thus calling for efficient simulation frameworks capable of capturing the interplay between the application, the architecture, and the network. Addressing these new challenges requires a framework that assists the designer at different abstraction levels of system design. This paper concentrates on developing a framework for unified simulation environment for NoCs (fuse-N) which simplifies the design space exploration for NoCs by offering a comprehensive simulation support. The framework synthesizes the network infrastructure and the communication model and optimizes application mapping for design constraints. The proposed framework is a hardware-software co-design implementation using SystemC 2.1 and C++. Simulation results show the various design space explorations that can be performed by our framework.

Keywords

Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Delay; Design optimization; Network synthesis; Network-on-a-chip; Routing; Space exploration; Throughput

Disciplines

Computer and Systems Architecture | Computer Engineering | Digital Communications and Networking | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Electrical and Electronics | Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing

Language

English

Comments

Conference held: Las Vegas, NV, 27-29 April 2009

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Repository Citation

Raina, A., Muthukumar, V. (2009). Fuse-N: Framework for Unified Simulation Environment for network-on-chip. ITNG 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations 871-876. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.