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The Network on Chip (NoC) paradigm was introduced as a scalable communication infrastructure for future System-on-Chip applications. Designing application specific customized communication architectures is critical for obtaining low power, high performance solutions. Two significant design automation problems are the creation of an optimized configuration, given application requirement the implementation of this on-chip network. Automating the design of on-chip networks requires models for estimating area and energy, algorithms to effectively explore the design space and network component libraries and tools to generate the hardware description. Chip architects are faced with managing a wide range of customization options for individual components, routers and topology. As energy is of paramount importance, the effectiveness of any custom NoC generation approach lies in the availability of good energy models to effectively explore the design space. This thesis describes a complete NoC synthesis ???ow, called NoCGEN, for creating energy-efficient custom NoC architectures. Three major automation problems are addressed: custom topology generation, energy modeling and generation. An iterative algorithm is proposed to generate application specific point-to-point and packet-switched networks. The algorithm explores the design space for efficient topologies using characterized models and a system-level ???oorplanner for evaluating placement and wire-energy. Prior to our contribution, building an energy model required careful analysis of transistor or gate implementations. To alleviate the burden, an automated linear regression-based methodology is proposed to rapidly extract energy models for many router designs. The resulting models are cycle accurate with low-complexity and found to be within 10% of gate-level energy simulations, and execute several orders of magnitude faster than gate-level simulations. A hardware description of the custom topology is generated using a parameterizable library and custom HDL generator. Fully reusable and scalable network components (switches, crossbars, arbiters, routing algorithms) are described using a template approach and are used to compose arbitrary topologies. A methodology for building and composing routers and topologies using a template engine is described. The entire flow is implemented as several demonstrable extensible tools with powerful visualization functionality. Several experiments are performed to demonstrate the design space exploration capabilities and compare it against a competing min-cut topology generation algorithm.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisville, 2007. / Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Vita. "May 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-170). Also in PDF.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Mason University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 18, 2008). Thesis director: Sanjeev Setia. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Vita: p. 117. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-116). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, August, 1981. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Gibson, John H. ; Singh, Gurminder. "March 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 24, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Radio Networks, Multi-hop Networks, Computer Networks, Tactical Radio Networks, Software-Based Network Simulation, Network Analysis, SINCGARS, EPLRS, Cooperative Diversity, JCSS. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): Arquilla, John. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 2, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-106). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: network performance, prediction, measurements, network metrics. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-117).

Thesis (M.S.C.I.T.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 10, 2008). Includes bibliographical references.