2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Building Predictable Systems on Chip: An Analysis of Guaranteed Communication in the Aethereal Network on Chip
verfasst von : Om Prakash Gangwal, Andrei Rădulescu, Kees Goossens, Santiago González Pestana, Edwin Rijpkema
Erschienen in: Dynamic and Robust Streaming in and between Connected Consumer-Electronic Devices
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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As the complexity of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) is growing, meeting real-time requirements is becoming increasingly difficult. Predictability for computation, memory and communication components is needed to build real-time SoC. We focus on a predictable communication infrastructure called the Æthereal Network-on-Chip (NoC). The Æthereal NoC is a scalable communication infrastructure based on routers and network interfaces (NI). It provides two services: guaranteed throughput and latency (GT), and best effort (BE). Using the GT service, one can derive guaranteed bounds on latency and throughput. To achieve guaranteed throughput, buffers in NI must be dimensioned to hide round-trip latency and rate difference between computation and communication IPs (Intellectual Property). With the BE service, throughput and latency bounds cannot be derived with guarantees. In this chapter, we describe an analytical method to compute latency, throughput and buffering requirements for the Æthereal NoC. We show the usefulness of the method by applying it on an MPEG-2 (Moving Picture Experts Group) codec example.