1st Edition

Communication Architectures for Systems-on-Chip

Edited By José L. Ayala Copyright 2011
    450 Pages 500 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    449 Pages 500 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    A presentation of state-of-the-art approaches from an industrial applications perspective, Communication Architectures for Systems-on-Chip shows professionals, researchers, and students how to attack the problem of data communication in the manufacture of SoC architectures.

    With its lucid illustration of current trends and research improving the performance, quality, and reliability of transactions, this is an essential reference for anyone dealing with communication mechanisms for embedded systems, systems-on-chip, and multiprocessor architectures—or trying to overcome existing limitations. Exploring architectures currently implemented in manufactured SoCs—and those being proposed—this book analyzes a wide range of applications, including:

    • Well-established communication buses
    • Less common networks-on-chip
    • Modern technologies that include the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
    • Optical links used to speed up data transfer and boost both security and quality of service (QoS)

    The book’s contributors pay special attention to newer problems, including how to protect transactions of critical on-chip information (personal data, security keys, etc.) from an external attack. They examine mechanisms, revise communication protocols involved, and analyze overall impact on system performance.

    Introduction, J.L. Ayala

    Today’s market for systems-on-chip

    Basics of the system-on-chip design

    Open issues

     

    Communication Buses, P.G. del Valle and J.L. Ayala

    The AMBA Interface

    Sonics SMART Interconnects

    CoreConnect Bus

    STBus

    FPGA on-chip buses

    Open Standards

    WishBone

    Other specific buses

    Security

     

    NoC Architectures, M. Ruggiero

    Advantages of the NoC Paradigm

    Challenges of the NoC Paradigm

    Principles of NoC Architecture

    Basic Building Blocks of a NoC

    Available NoC Implementations and Solutions

     

    Quality-of-Service in NoCs, F. Angiolini and S. Murali

    Architectures for QoS

     

    Emerging Interconnect Technologies, D. Sacchetto, M.H. Ben-Jamaa, B. Shashi Kanth, and F. Sun

    Optical Interconnects

    Plasmonic Interconnects

    Silicon Nanowires

    Carbon Nanotubes

    3D Integration Technology

     

    HeTERO: Hybrid Topology Exploration for RF based On Chip Networks, S. Eachempati, R. Das, V. Narayanan, Y. Xie, S. Datta, and C.R. Das

    RF-Interconnect

    State-of-art Topologies

    RF-Topology Modeling

    RF-based Topologies

    Experimental Setup

    Results

    Applications

    Related Work

     

    Intra-/Inter-Chip Optical Communications, B. Garcia-Camara

    Photonic Components for On-chip Optical Interconnects

    Why optical links? Comparison of electrical and optical interconnects

    Photonic Networks

    New optical nanocircuits based on metamaterials

    Present and Future of the Intra-/Inter-Chip Optical Interconnections

     

    Security Issues in SoC Communication, J.M. Moya, J.M. de Goyeneche, and P. Malagon

    Power Analysis Attacks

    Logic-level DPA-aware Techniques

    Architecture-level DPA-aware Techniques

    Algorithm-level DPA-aware Techniques

    Validation

    Traps and Pitfalls

    Biography

    Jose L. Ayala got a M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnica University of Madrid in 2001, and a M.S. in Physics from the Open University of Spain in 2002. After that, he pursued his Ph.D on Electronic Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Politecnica University of Madrid. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Architecture of the Complutense University of Madrid.