Enhancing performance of network-on-chip architectures with millimeter-wave wireless interconnects

In a traditional Network-on-Chip (NoC), latency and power dissipation increase with system size due to its inherent multi-hop communications. The performance of NoC communication fabrics can be significantly enhanced by introducing long-range, low power, high bandwidth direct links between far apart cores. In this paper a design methodology for a scalable hierarchical NoC with on-chip millimeter (mm)-wave wireless links is proposed. The proposed wireless NoC offers significantly higher throughput and lower energy dissipation compared to its conventional multi-hop wired counterpart. It is also demonstrated that the proposed hierarchical NoC with long range wireless links shows significant performance gains in presence of various application-specific traffic and multicast scenarios.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ASAP
• Authors: Sujay Deb, Amlan Ganguly, Kevin Chang, Partha Pratim Pande, Benjamin Belzer, Deuk Heo
• Keywords: ASAP 2010, Hardware, Hierarchical Noc, NoC Communication Fabrics, Scalable Hierarchical Noc