Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have been a research hotspot in recent years. Programmable PICs that the advantages of versatility and reconfigurability can realize multiple functions through common structure especially popular. Leveraging on-chip couplers phase shifters, general-purpose waveguide meshes connected different topologies be manipulated at run-time support variety applications....

In this paper, we present network-on-chip (NoC) design and contrast it to traditional network design, highlighting both similarities and differences between NoCs and traditional networks. As an initial case study, we examine network congestion in bufferless NoCs. We show that congestion manifests itself differently in a NoC than in a traditional network. This both reduces system throughput in c...

Networks-on-chip (NoC) have been used as an interesting option in design of communication infrastructures for embedded systems, providing a scalable structure and balancing the communication between cores. Because several data packets can be transmitted simultaneously through the network, an efficient routing strategy must be used in order to avoid congestion delays. In this paper, ant colony a...

A true application-specific Network-on-Chip (NoC) requires the exact knowledge of the internal traffic behavior during the NoC is fully running the target application. Therefore, an accurate traffic measuring method is necessary. In this work, a simple but powerful traffic monitoring system is presented for the accurate evaluation and refinement of an application-specific NoC. The traffic monit...

Since around year 2000, Network-on-Chip (NoC) has been proposed as a global communication paradigm to interconnect tens or hundreds of cores on a single chip (Bjerregaard & Mahadevan, 2006). One key challenge for NoCs has been Quality of Service (QoS), which is concerned about performance guarantees or bounds. To achieve QoS, formal performance analysis is essential because it overcomes the unc...

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is the optical analogy of an electronic loop in which photons are signal carriers with high transport speed and parallel processing capability. Besides the most frequently demonstrated silicon-based circuits, PICs require a variety of materials for light generation, processing, modulation, and detection. With their diversity and flexibility, organic molecular...

This paper presents present three novel buffer schemes for system on chip applications that have an interconnection network. The proposed schemes are based on a DAMQ self-compacting buffer to provide larger available buffer space per channel for incoming flits. The proposed schemes outperform existing approaches, and optimize buffer management by providing better throughput when the network has...

NoC (network On Chip) is an efficient approach to design the communication subsystem between IP Cores in SoC (System On Chip). In this paper a communication infrastructure design using CDMA (Code division multiple access) based shared bus architecture for core-to-core communication in NoC is presented. CDMA has been proposed as an alternative way for interconnect of IP cores in a SoC design, or...

Nowadays, network-on-chip (NoC) systems are becoming more popular due to their big advantages when compare with systems-on-chip (SoC). Therefore, an increasing number of researchers and organizations now focus on the study and development of NoC techniques. As a result, so far many achievements have been gained. Furthermore, considering the dominant position of wireless and the weakness of wire...