A Comparative Study on NoC Transpose Traffic

Abstract

In the research of Network-on-Chip (NoC), network performance is evaluated by a lot of simulations. In these simulations, traffic scenarios play an important role. A wide range of traffic scenarios, such as uniform random, transpose, tornado, etc. have been considered. However, there is lack of comparative study of these traffic scenarios. In this paper, simulations are carried out under a wide range of traffic scenarios. The simulation results show that if a routing has good performance under both transpose1 and transpose2 traffics then it will not have poor performance under any other traffic scenario, with high probability.