Quarc: a novel network-on-chip architecture

Moadeli, M., Vanderbauwhede, W. and Shahrabi, A. (2008) Quarc: a novel network-on-chip architecture. In: 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008. ICPADS '08, Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 Dec 2008, pp. 705-712. ISBN 9780769534343 (doi: 10.1109/ICPADS.2008.53)

Abstract

This paper introduces the Quarc NoC, a novel NoC architecture inspired by the Spidergon NoC. The Quarc scheme significantly outperforms the Spidergon NoC through balancing the traffic which is the result of the modifications applied to the topology and the routing elements.The proposed architecture is highly efficient in performing collective communication operations including broadcast and multicast. We present the topology, routing discipline and switch architecture for the Quarc NoC and demonstrate the performance with the results obtained from discrete event simulations.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Vanderbauwhede, Professor Wim and Moadeli, Mr Mahmoud
• Authors: Moadeli, M., Vanderbauwhede, W., and Shahrabi, A.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• ISBN: 9780769534343
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2008, IEEE
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008. ICPADS '08: 705-712
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
38934	1	A novel service-based system on a chip architecture using on chip networks with smart packets and dynamically reconfigurable logic	Wim Vanderbauwhede	Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)	GR/T03239/01	COM - COMPUTING SCIENCE