SOBR: A High-Performance Shared Output Buffered Router for Networks-on-Chip

Yancang CHEN  Lunguo XIE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E95-D   No.7   pp.2002-2005
Publication Date: 2012/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E95.D.2002
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Computer System
Keyword: 
networks-on-chip,  router,  virtual channel,  switching,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a single-cycle shared output buffered router for Networks-on-Chip. In output ports, each input port always has an output virtual-channel (VC) which can be exchanged by VC swapper. Its critical path is only 24 logic gates, and it reduces 9.4% area overhead compared with the classical router.