Addressing the system-on-a-chip interconnect woes through communication-based design

M. Sgroi; M. Sheets; A. Mihal; K. Keutzer; Sharad Malik; J. Rabaey; A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

doi:10.1145/378239.379045

Addressing the system-on-a-chip interconnect woes through communication-based design

M. Sgroi, M. Sheets, A. Mihal, K. Keutzer, Sharad Malik, J. Rabaey, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Princeton University

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Abstract

Communication-based design represents a formal approach to system-on-a-chip design that considers communication between components as important as the computations they perform. Our "network-on-chip" approach partitions the communication into layers to maximize reuse and provide a programmer with an abstraction of the underlying communication framework. This layered approach is cast in the structure advocated by the OSI Reference Model and is demonstrated with a reconfigurable DSP example. The Metropolis methodology of deriving layers through a sequence of adaptation steps between incompatible behaviors is illustrated through the Intercom design example. In another approach, MESCAL provides a designer with tools for a correct-by-construction protocol stack.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	667-672
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/378239.379045
State	Published - 2001
Event	38th Design Automation Conference - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Jun 18 2001 → Jun 22 2001

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Hardware and Architecture
Control and Systems Engineering

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Communication-based design
Network-on-chip
Platform-based design
Protocol stack

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