Real-time communication analysis for on-chip networks with wormhole switching

Z Shi, A Burns - … IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we discuss a real-time on-chip communication service with a priority-based
wormhole switching policy. A novel off-line schedulability analysis approach is presented …

Mathematical formalisms for performance evaluation of networks-on-chip

AE Kiasari, A Jantsch, Z Lu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2013 - dl.acm.org
This article reviews four popular mathematical formalisms—queueing theory, network
calculus, schedulability analysis, and dataflow analysis—and how they have been applied …

A wormhole noc protocol for mixed criticality systems

A Burns, J Harbin, LS Indrusiak - 2014 IEEE Real-Time …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lack of scalability and difficulties in predicting the temporal behaviour of bus-based
architectures has lead to the development of Network-on-Chip (NoC) protocols that provide …

Worst-case communication time analysis of networks-on-chip with shared virtual channels

EA Rambo, R Ernst - 2015 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network-on-Chip (NoC) based multi-and many-core architectures show high potential for
use in real-time applications due to their superior efficiency. In real-time systems, it is …

Schedulability analysis for real time on-chip communication with wormhole switching

Z Shi, A Burns, LS Indrusiak - Innovations in embedded and real-time …, 2012 - igi-global.com
In this paper, the authors discuss a real-time on-chip communication service with a priority-
based wormhole switching policy. The authors present a novel off-line schedulability …

Extending real-time analysis for wormhole NoCs

Q Xiong, F Wu, Z Lu, C Xie - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The delay upper-bound analysis problem is of fundamental importance to real-time
applications in Network-on-Chips (NoCs). In the paper, we revisit two state-of-the-art …

Schedulability analysis and task mapping for real-time on-chip communication

Z Shi, A Burns - Real-Time Systems, 2010 - Springer
Priority-based wormhole switching with a priority share policy has been proposed as a
possible solution for real-time on-chip communication. However, the blocking introduced by …

Real-time communication analysis with a priority share policy in on-chip networks

Z Shi, A Burns - 2009 21st Euromicro Conference on Real …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wormhole switching with fixed priority preemption has been proposed as a possible solution
for real-time on-chip communication. However, the hardware implementation cost is …

Buffer-aware bounds to multi-point progressive blocking in priority-preemptive NoCs

LS Indrusiak, A Burns, B Nikolić - 2018 Design, Automation & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to reduce the pessimism of the analysis of the multi-point progressive
blocking (MPB) problem in real-time priority-preemptive wormhole networks-on-chip. It …

Reduced worst-case communication latency using single-cycle multihop traversal network-on-chip

P Chen, W Liu, H Chen, S Li, M Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The communication latency in traditional network-on-chip (NoC) with hop-by-hop traversal is
inherently restricted by the distance between source-destination communicating pairs …