As integrated circuit processes become more advanced, feature sizes become smaller and smaller, and more and more processing cores and memory components are integrated on a single chip. However, the traditional bus-based System-on-Chip (SoC) communication is inefficient, has poor scalability, and cannot handle the communication tasks between the processing cores well. Network-on-chip (NoC) has become an important development direction in this field by virtue of its efficient transmission and scalability of data between multiple cores. The mapping problem is a hot spot in NoC's research field, and its mapping results will directly affect the power consumption, latency, and other properties of the chip. The mapping problem is a NP-hard problem, so how to effectively obtain low-power and low-latency mapping schemes becomes a research difficulty. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes a two-populations-with-enhanced-initial-population based on genetic algorithm (TI_GA) task mapping algorithm based on an improved genetic algorithm from the two indexes of power consumption and delay. The quality of the initial individual is optimized in the process of constructing the population, so the quality of initial population is improved. In addition, a two-population genetic mechanism is added during the iterative process of the algorithm. The experimental results show that TI_GA is very effective for optimizing network power consumption and delay of heterogeneous multi-core.
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