Communication Centric Design.- Preliminaries.- Techniques for High Performance NoC Routing.- Performance-Energy tradeoffs for NoC Reliability.- Energy-aware Task Scheduling for NoC-based DVS System.- Bi-directional NoC Architecture.- Quality-of-Service in BiNoC.- Fault Tolerance in BiNoC.- Application Mapping for BiNoC.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of recent progress in the design and implementation of Networks-on-Chip. It addresses a wide spectrum of on-chip communication problems, ranging from physical, network, to application layers. Specific topics that are explored in detail include packet routing, resource arbitration, error control/correction, application mapping, and communication scheduling. Additionally, a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC (BiNoC) architecture is described, with detailed explanation.  Written for practicing engineers in need of practical knowledge about the design and implementation of networks-on-chip; Includes tutorial-like details to introduce readers to a diverse range of NoC designs, as well as in-depth analysis for designers with NoC experience to explore advanced issues; Describes a variety of on-chip communication architectures, including a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC.  From the Foreword:Overall this book shows important advances over the state of the art that will affect future system design as well as R&D in tools and methods for NoC design. It represents an important reference point for both designers and electronic design automation researchers and developers.--Giovanni De Micheli

From the reviews:“This monograph reviews the fundamental theories, architectures, algorithms, and state-of-the-art development of NoC. The book begins with an overview of the communication-centric design for multi-processor system-on-chip (MP-SoC) and conventional NoC architectures, followed by an extended introduction to the design methodology of NoC. The book concludes with a case study of bidirectional NoC (BiNoC) architecture. … Overall, this monograph provides an in-depth, academic introduction to the design methodology of NoC architecture. … It is suitable for academic researchers and professionals working with NoC.” (Jun Liu, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2012)

Written for practicing engineers in need of practical knowledge about the design and implementation of networks-on-chip Includes tutorial-like details to introduce readers to a diverse range of NoC designs, as well as in-depth analysis for designers with NoC experience to explore advanced issues Describes a variety of on-chip communication architectures, including a novel bi-directional communication channel NoC Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras