Network-on-Chip Architectures Nicopoulos Chrysostomos
Network-on-Chip Architectures Nicopoulos Chrysostomos 2]. Furthermore, Intel's very recently announced 80-core TeraFLOP chip 5] exemplifies the irreversible march toward many-core systems with tens…
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Network-on-Chip Architectures Nicopoulos Chrysostomos
2]. Furthermore, Intel's very recently announced 80-core TeraFLOP chip 5] exemplifies the irreversible march toward many-core systems with tens or even hundreds of processing elements. The Cell Processor from Sony, Toshiba and IBM (STI) 3], and the Sun UltraSPARC T1 (formerly codenamed Niagara) 4] signal the growing popularity of such systems.
The large, sophisticated monolithic modules are giving way to several smaller, simpler p- cessing elements working in tandem. 1.2 The Dawn of the Communication-Centric Revolution The multi-core thrust has ushered the gradual displacement of the computati- centric design model by a more communication-centric approach 6]. This trend has led to a surge in the popularity of multi-core systems, which typically manifest themselves in two distinct incarnations: heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoC) and homogeneous Chip