Simulation and Implementation of a New NoC-based Interconnection Network
A new NoC-based interconnection topology,MLR is proposed taking consideration both the network performance and the hardware cost. This proposed NoC topology uses hierarchical interconnection architecture to reduce the network diameter and link number between IP cores. Due to the symmetrical and scalable architecture,MLR has a better performance on both global and local IP core communications. These performance improvements such as network drop rate,latency and throughput have been verified to be improved over 50%-70%,based on simulations on the proposed MLR network and other topologies such as 2D-mesh. The router-sharing scheme which is used in the MLR structure also reduces the hardware cost and system dynamic power for over 20% and 40% respectively.