TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of Round Robin Arbiters on router's performance for NoCs on FPGAs
AU - Abdelrasoul, Maher
AU - Ragab, Mohammed
AU - Goulart Ferreira, Victor Mauro
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Routers are the basic building blocks of NoCs and their throughput critically affects the whole network performance. One of the most important building blocks in the router is the arbitration circuit, which controls granting to various requesters when the network is heavily used. In this work we focus on RRAs (Round Robin Arbiters) and their impact on router's performance and area on various FPGAs. We also propose a new arbiter design, Truth-Table arbiter, specifically aimed towards FPGA devices. Our results show that the arbiter circuit influences the router performance in most cases. Moreover, our newly proposed Truth-Table arbiter shows the same performance as the best existing arbiters but with smaller total area overhead and ease of design.
AB - Routers are the basic building blocks of NoCs and their throughput critically affects the whole network performance. One of the most important building blocks in the router is the arbitration circuit, which controls granting to various requesters when the network is heavily used. In this work we focus on RRAs (Round Robin Arbiters) and their impact on router's performance and area on various FPGAs. We also propose a new arbiter design, Truth-Table arbiter, specifically aimed towards FPGA devices. Our results show that the arbiter circuit influences the router performance in most cases. Moreover, our newly proposed Truth-Table arbiter shows the same performance as the best existing arbiters but with smaller total area overhead and ease of design.
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U2 - 10.1109/CircuitsAndSystems.2013.6671635
DO - 10.1109/CircuitsAndSystems.2013.6671635
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893254600
SN - 9781479913374
T3 - ICCAS 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems: "Advanced Circuits and Systems for Sustainability"
SP - 59
EP - 64
BT - ICCAS 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems: "Advanced Circuits and Systems for Sustainability", ICCAS 2013
Y2 - 18 September 2013 through 19 September 2013
ER -