ViChaR: A Dynamic Virtual Channel Regulator for Network-on-Chip Routers

By Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Dongkook Park, Jongman Kim, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mazin S. Yousif, Chita R. Das. Micro, 2006

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Citations in the corpus

• Outstanding Research Problems in NoC Design: System, Microarchitecture, and Circuit Perspectives (2009, methodology): “A VC regulator which dynamically allocates VCs and buffers according to traffic conditions, thereby reducing total buffering requirements and saving area and power, is presented in [116].”
• Flattened Butterfly Topology for On-Chip Networks (2007, methodology): “For example, in the TRIPS on-chip network, the VC allocation consumes 27% of the cycle time [12] and an area analysis show that VC allocation can occupy up to 35% of the total area for an on-chip network router [20].”
• GARNET: A detailed on-chip network model inside a full-system simulator (2009, methodology): “In [22], results were presented for ViChaR for tornado traffic on a baseline network with the classic five-stage pipelined router.”
• A detailed and flexible cycle-accurate Network-on-Chip simulator (2013, background): “While a variety of different hardware implementations have been proposed in prior work [26], [27], the implementation differences between them typically do not manifest in different network behavior and are thus transparent to the simulator; as such, BookSim2 can accurately model most such…”