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Provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of NoC design

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Part One: Logic Implementations

2 A Single-cycle Router with Wing Channel

3 Dynamic VC Routers with Congestion Awareness

4 A NoC Topology with Virtual Bus

Part Two: Routing and Flow Control

5 Routing Algorithms for Workload Consolidation

6 Flow Control for Fully Adaptive Routing

7 Deadlock-free Flow Control for Torus NoCs

8 Delay Analysis based on the M/G/1/N Queuing Model

Part Three: Programming Paradigms

9 Support Cache-coherent Collective Communication

10 Optimizations to Exploit Communication Locality

11 Customizations for MPI Primitives

12 Conclusions and Future Work

About the Author

Sheng Ma received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and technology from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He visited the University of Toronto from Sept. 2010 to Sept. 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor of the College of Computer, NUDT. His research interests include on-chip networks, SIMD architectures and arithmetic unit designs. Libo Huang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from National University of Defense Technology, PR China, in 2005 and 2010 respectively. From 2010, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include computer architecture, hardware/software Codesign, VLSI design, on-chip communication. He served as the technical reviewer of several conference and journals, e.g. MEJ, IJHPSA, ICCE 2010. Since 2004, he authored more than 20 papers in internationally recognized journals and conferences Mingche Lai received the PhD degree in computer engineering from NUDT in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with College of Computer, NUDT, and employed to develop high-performance computer interconnection systems. Since 2008, he has also been a Faculty Member with National Key Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing of China. His research interests include on-chip networks, optical communication, many-core processor architecture, hardware/software co-design. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM Wei Shi received the PhD degree in computer Science from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in 2010. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of the College of Computer, NUDT, and employed to develop high-performance processors. His research interests include computer architecture, VLSI design, on-chip communication and asynchronous circuit techniques Zhiying Wang received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Defense Technology in 1988. He is currently a professor with College of Computer, NUDT. He has contributed over 10 invited chapters to book volumes, published 240 papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings, and delivered over 30 keynotes. His main research fields include computer architecture, computer security, VLSI design, reliable architecture, multicore memory system and asynchronous circuit. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.