CTC: An end-to-end flow control protocol for multi-core systems-on-chip
We propose Connection then Credits (CTC) as a new end-to-end flow control protocol to handle message-dependent deadlocks in networks-on-chip (NoC) for multicore systems-on-chip. CTC is based on the classic end-to-end credit-based flow control protocol but differs from it because it uses a network in...
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Published in | 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip pp. 193 - 202 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Conference Proceeding |
Language | English |
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01.05.2009
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Summary: | We propose Connection then Credits (CTC) as a new end-to-end flow control protocol to handle message-dependent deadlocks in networks-on-chip (NoC) for multicore systems-on-chip. CTC is based on the classic end-to-end credit-based flow control protocol but differs from it because it uses a network interface micro-architecture where a single credit counter and a single input data queue are shared among all possible communications. This architectural simplification reduces the area occupation of the network interfaces and increases their design reuse: for instance, the same network interface can be used to connect a core independently of the number of incoming and outgoing communications. CTC, however, requires a handshake preamble to initialize the credit counter in the sender network interface based on the buffering capacity of the receiver network interface. While this necessarily introduces a latency overhead in the transfer of a message, simulation-based experimental results show that the penalty in performance is limited when large messages need to be transferred, thus making CTC a valid solution for particular classes of applications such as video stream processing. |
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ISBN: | 1424441420 9781424441426 |
DOI: | 10.1109/NOCS.2009.5071467 |