[ACM Press the 2012 international conference - Tampere, Finland (2012.10.07-2012.10.12)] Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems - CASES '12 - Analytical approaches for performance evaluation of networks-on-chip

✍ Scribed by Eslami Kiasari, Abbas; Jantsch, Axel; Bekooij, Marco; Burns, Alan; Lu, Zhonghai

• Book ID: 118145798
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 409 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1450314244
• DOI: 10.1145/2380403.2380442

✦ Synopsis

This tutorial reviews four popular mathematical formalismsdataflow analysis, schedulability analysis, network calculus, and queueing theory -and how they have been applied to the analysis of Network-on-Chip (NoC) performance. We review the basic concepts and results of each formalism and provide examples of how they have been used in on-chip communication performance analysis. The tutorial also discusses the respective strengths and weaknesses of each formalism, their suitability for a specific purpose, and the attempts that have been made to bridge these analytical approaches. Finally, we conclude the tutorial by discussing open research issues.