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.
