[May 16, 2008] OCP-IP Offers Survey of Network on Chip Architectures Tweet (Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) OCP-IP announced the availability of a survey of Network-on-chip (NoC) proposals. NoCs replace wires with scalable, general purpose, multi-hop networks. NoCs can provide separation between computation and communications, serve as a platform for test, and support IP reuse increasing engineering productivity and decreasing time to market, the company said. This survey gives an overview of the network-on-chip proposals. The survey contains sections on NoC Architecture Comparison, Comparison Criteria, NoC Evaluation Methods, and NoC Router Implementation. NoC Architecture Comparison discusses switching policy, topology, routing, quality-of-service, as well as testing and fault tolerance. NoC Evaluation Methods covers evaluation metrics and example test cases. Router Implementation discusses router parameters, minimum latency, area and operating frequency. Work on the survey of NoCs paper was completed by Tampere University of Technology and the OCP-IP NoC Benchmarking Group. Survey online: http://www.ocpip.org/socket/whitepapers/ ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]