Network-on-Chip (NoC) is communication infrastructure for future multi-core Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). NoCs are expected to overcome scalability and performance limitations of Point-to-Point (P2P) and bus-based communication systems. The routing algorithm of a given NoC affects the performance of the system measured with respect to metrics such as latency, throughput and load distribution. In this thesis, the popular Orthogonal One Turn (O1TURN) and Dimension Order Routing algorithms (DOR) for 2D-meshes are implemented by computer simulation. Investigating the effect of parameters such as packet, buffer and topology sizes on the performance of the network, it is observed that the center of the network is loaded more than the edges. A new routing algorithm is proposed and evaluated to achieve a more balanced load distribution. The results show that this goal is achieved with a trade off in latency and throughput in DOR and O1TURN.

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