Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

7.7. Conclusions

As SoCs become increasingly complex, the on-chip communication architecture is expected to become more and more critical from the point of view of system performance, energy consumption, and battery life. In this chapter, we provided an overview of techniques for designing communication architectures for high-performance, energy-efficient system-on-chips. We described techniques for fast and accurate system-level performance/power analysis to drive communication architecture design and automatic techniques for customizing the communication architecture to the characteristics of an application’s communication traffic, through both static customization (of communication architecture templates) and dynamic customization (using CATs). ...