Sep 2, 2012
On-Chip Networks, what’s really new? (Flich)
The on-chip network paradigm appeared in the last decade as a solution for the connection of components inside a chip. While this is a covered need, the questioning is whether this paradigm is just a new domain field of already known solutions and techniques (from the off-chip communication interconnects hugely researched and practiced in the past) or challenges with new milestones to be achieved (asking for new methods and tools yet to discover). While it is commonly agreed constraints and requirements are different from the off-chip interconnect world, the current proposed solutions are highly similar and suggest an evolutionary approach. In this talk I will focus on what’s new and what’s now and will provide some basic examples of key differentiating research only applicable to on-chip networks.