Simulation and performance evaluation of a Network-on-Chip architecture based on SystemC

Thanh-Vu Le-Van, Xuan-Tu Tran, Dien-Tap Ngo
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The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been recently known as a competitive on-chip communication solution for large complex systems such as multi-core and/or many-core systems thanks to its advantages. However, one of the main challenging issues for NoC designers is that the network performance should be rapidly and early pre-proved for target applications. In this paper, we present a NoC simulation and evaluation platform allowing designers to simulate and evaluate the NoC performance with different network configuration parameters. The proposed platform has been implemented in SystemC to be easily modified in order to adapt different simulation strategies and save the simulation time. With this platform, designers can deal with: (i) configuring the network topology, flow control mechanism and routing algorithm; (ii) configuring various regular and application specific traffic patterns; and (iii) simulating and analyzing the network performance with the assigned traffic patterns in terms of latency and throughput. Obtained results with a 4 × 4 2D-mesh NoC architecture will be presented and discussed in this paper to demonstrate the proposed platform.
基于SystemC的片上网络体系结构仿真与性能评价
由于其优势,片上网络(NoC)范式最近被称为大型复杂系统(如多核和/或多核系统)的竞争性片上通信解决方案。然而,NoC设计人员面临的主要挑战之一是,网络性能应该针对目标应用进行快速和早期的预验证。在本文中,我们提出了一个NoC仿真和评估平台,允许设计人员在不同的网络配置参数下模拟和评估NoC性能。该平台已在SystemC中实现,便于修改,以适应不同的仿真策略,节省仿真时间。利用该平台,设计人员可以进行以下工作:(1)配置网络拓扑结构、流量控制机制和路由算法;(ii)配置各种常规及特定应用的流量模式;(iii)在延迟和吞吐量方面模拟和分析具有指定流量模式的网络性能。本文将介绍并讨论使用4 × 4 2d网格NoC架构获得的结果,以演示所提出的平台。
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