Resource-efficient Routing and Scheduling of Time-constrained Network-on-Chip Communication
Network-on-chip-based multiprocessor systems-on-chip are considered as future embedded systems platforms. One of the steps in mapping an application onto such a parallel platform involves scheduling the communication on the network-on-chip. This paper presents different scheduling strategies that minimize resource usage by exploiting all scheduling freedom offered by networks-on-chip. It also introduces a technique to take the dynamism in applications into account when scheduling the communication of an application on the network-on-chip while minimizing the resource usage. Our experiments show that resource-utilization is improved when compared to existing techniques.
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Resource-efficient Routing and Scheduling of Time-constrained Network-on-Chip Communication
S. Stuijk, T. Basten, M.C.W. Geilen, A.H. Ghamarian and B.D. Theelen.
In Journal of Systems Architecture, volume 54, issue 3-4, March-April 2008, pages 411-426. Elsevier, The Netherlands, 2008. (abstract, pdf, doi).