Power-aware communication optimization for networks-on-chips with voltage scalable links

Dongkun Shin, Jihong Kim
2004 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis - CODES+ISSS '04  
Networks-on-Chip (NoC) is emerging as a practical development platform for future systems-on-chip products. We propose an energyefficient static algorithm which optimizes the energy consumption of task communications in NoCs with voltage scalable links. In order to find optimal link speeds, the proposed algorithm (based on a genetic formulation) globally explores the design space of NoCbased systems, including task assignment, tile mapping, routing path allocation, task scheduling and link
more » ... assignment. Experimental results show that the proposed design technique can reduce energy consumption by 28% on average compared with existing techniques.
doi:10.1145/1016720.1016763 dblp:conf/codes/ShinK04 fatcat:l53tdohfe5dwbbyipp6xwpu6ya