Networks-on-Chip

Preface

The continuing advance of semiconductor technology has led to dramatic increases in transistor densities. Designing complex single-core processors brings about a sharp increase in power consumption, but this is accompanied by diminishing performance returns. Instead, computer architects are actively pursuing multicore designs to efficiently use the billions of transistors on a single chip. Current processors have already integrated tens or hundreds of cores; the community is entering the many-core era. Although great breakthroughs have already been made in the design of many-core processors, there are still many critical challenges to solve, ranging from high-level parallel programming paradigms to low-level logic implementations. ...