Indrusiak, Leandro Soares orcid.org/0000-0002-9938-2920, Harbin, James orcid.org/0000-0002-6479-8600 and Dos Santos, Osmar Marchi (2015) Fast simulation of networks-on-chip with priority-preemptive arbitration. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 56. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1557-7309
Abstract
An increasingly time-consuming part of the design flow of on-chip multiprocessors is the simulation of the interconnect architecture. The accurate simulation of state-of-the art network-on-chip interconnects can take hours, and this process is repeated for each design iteration because it provides valuable insights on communication latencies that can greatly affect the overall performance of the system. In this article, we identify a time-predictable network-on-chip architecture and show that its timing behaviour can be predicted using models which are far less complex than the architecture itself. We then explore such a feature to produce simplified and lightweight simulation models that can produce latency figures with more than 90% accuracy and simulate more than 1,000 times faster when compared to a cycle-accurate model of the same interconnect.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Network-on-chip,Transaction-level simulation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) The University of York |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/K011626/1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2016 15:46 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2025 00:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/2755559 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/2755559 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93366 |
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