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Special Topics in System Level Design: Networks on Chip

FDA175, 2004HT

Status Archive
School Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Division SAS
Owner Petru Eles
Homepage http://www.ida.liu.se/~petel/NoC/

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Course plan

Lectures

24 h

Recommended for

Graduate students in Computer Science and Computer Systems.

The course was last given

New course

Goals

Networks on Chip is a new paradigm for system on chip design. It borrows ideas from Computer Networks for providing interconnections and communication among on-chip cores. The goal of the course is to introduce the issues involved in designing systems using this new paradigm. The course also addresses the issue of analysis and mapping of time and power constrained applications on network on chip architectures.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of system design in software or hardware.

Organization

The course will consist of invited lectures and presentations by the students.

Contents

· Evolution of the Network on Chip paradigm
. Packet switched networks for on chip communication
. Quality of Service (QoS) issues for on-chip networks
. Physical issues in Network on Chip design
. Network on Chip design methodology
. Application mapping on a Network on Chip architecture
. Application Programming Interface for a Network on Chip platform
. Case studies of Network on Chip architecture proposals

Literature

Networks on Chip
edited by
Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003

Selected research papers

Lecturers

Invited lecturers

Examiner

Petru Eles, Zebo Peng, Shashi Kumar

Examination

Seminar presentation and written report

Credit

4 points

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