A reusable verification environment for NoC platforms using UVM

Eissa, Ahmed S.; Ibrahem, Moamen A.; Elmohr, Mahmoud A.; Zamzam, Yasmin; El-Yamany, Ahmed; El-Ashry, Sameh; Khamis, Mostafa; Shalaby, Ahmed

doi:10.1109/eurocon.2017.8011112

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“…Each router node is connected by its local port's channel and flow control buses to a network interface which is linked to a RI5CY core. This router was also verified and tested using the environment in [11] [12]. The 3D networks routers [13] could be studied and implemented in future work.…”

Section: B Configurable Routermentioning

confidence: 98%

RVNoC: A Framework for Generating RISC-V NoC-Based MPSoC

Elmohr

Eissa

Ibrahim

et al. 2018

2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP)

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With the increase in the number of cores embedded on a chip; The main challenge for Multiprocessor Systemon-Chip (MPSoC) platforms is the interconnection between that massive number of cores. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) was introduced to solve that challenge, by providing a scalable and modular solution for communication between the cores. In this paper, we introduce a configurable MPSoC framework called RVNoC that generates synthesizable RTL that can be used in both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The proposed framework is based on the open source RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and an open source configurable flit-based router for interconnection between cores, with a core network interface of our design to connect each core with its designated router. A benchmarking environment is developed to evaluate variant parameters of the generated MPSoC. Synthesis of a single building block containing a single core without any peripherals, a router, and a core network interface, using 45nm technology, shows an area of 102.34 kilo Gate Equivalents (kGE), a maximum frequency of 250 MHz, and a 9.9 μW/MHz power consumption.

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Section: B Configurable Routermentioning

confidence: 98%