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NoC design and optimization for Multi-core media processors

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List of Tables3.1 ICN exploration framework parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353.2 TrafficGeneration/DistributionModel<strong>and</strong>ExperimentSetup<strong>for</strong>theMesh,Torus & Folded-Torus case study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.3 Links <strong>and</strong> pipelining details of <strong>NoC</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.4 DLA traffic, Frequency crossover points in 2D Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493.5 Comparison of 3 topologies <strong>for</strong> DLA traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493.6 Experimental Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503.7 Links <strong>and</strong> pipelining details of <strong>NoC</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513.8 Power optimal frequency trip points in a various <strong>NoC</strong>s. . . . . . . . . . . . 573.9 Comparison of 3 topologies. Maximum interconnect network per<strong>for</strong>mance<strong>and</strong> power consumption <strong>for</strong> varying pipe stages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.1 Configuration parameters of <strong>processors</strong>, caches & interconnection networkused in experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744.2 Scaled processor power over L1 configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774.3 Primary<strong>and</strong>Secondarycacheparameters(accesstime, area)obtainedfromcacti. L2 access latencies as a function of L1 access times is also shown. . . 774.4 Max operating frequencies, Dynamic energy per access of various L1/L2caches. Values were calculated using cacti power models using 32nm PTM. 784.5 Lengths of links between L1/L2 caches & routers <strong>and</strong> between routers ofneighbouring tiles <strong>for</strong> a regular mesh placement. No. of pipeline stagesrequired to meet the maximum frequency are also shown. . . . . . . . . . . 794.6 FFT. Power spent in links (in mW). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894.7 Total messages in transit (in Millions). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934.8 Clustered tile placement floorplan <strong>for</strong> L1: 256KB <strong>and</strong> L2: 512KB. Lengthsoflinks between neighbouringrouters, numberofpipelinestagesare shown.Frequency: 1.38 GHz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975.1 Communication characteristics between HiperLAN/2 nodes. . . . . . . . . 1025.2 Routing table of a n port (n = 5) router with a lw bit (lw = 4) labelindexed by labels used in the label switched <strong>NoC</strong>. Size of the routing table= 2 lw ×n×lw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095.3 Simulation parameters used <strong>for</strong> functional verification of the label switchedrouter <strong>design</strong>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113xi

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