TY - GEN
T1 - High-throughput protocol converter based on an independent encoding/decoding scheme for asynchronous network-on-chip
AU - Onizawa, Naoya
AU - Hanyu, Takahiro
PY - 2010/8/31
Y1 - 2010/8/31
N2 - This paper presents a high-throughput asynchronous protocol converter between two-phase communication links and four-phase pipelined routers for asynchronous Network-on-Chip. In the proposed protocol converter, two-phase input and output signals are encoded to and decoded from the four-phase signals, respectively, by using two controllers which are attached to the router. Since the two controls are realized respectively by using only the input signal and the output signal, the "two-to-four-phase" and "four-to-two- phase" conversions are independently performed. Therefore, each conversion is completely performed without input-output dependency. As a result, the proposed protocol converter achieves an up to 77 % increase in throughput under a comparable energy consumption with respect to that of a conventional protocol converter on a Silterra 0.13-μm CMOS technology.
AB - This paper presents a high-throughput asynchronous protocol converter between two-phase communication links and four-phase pipelined routers for asynchronous Network-on-Chip. In the proposed protocol converter, two-phase input and output signals are encoded to and decoded from the four-phase signals, respectively, by using two controllers which are attached to the router. Since the two controls are realized respectively by using only the input signal and the output signal, the "two-to-four-phase" and "four-to-two- phase" conversions are independently performed. Therefore, each conversion is completely performed without input-output dependency. As a result, the proposed protocol converter achieves an up to 77 % increase in throughput under a comparable energy consumption with respect to that of a conventional protocol converter on a Silterra 0.13-μm CMOS technology.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5538027
DO - 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5538027
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956004500
SN - 9781424453085
T3 - ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems
SP - 157
EP - 160
BT - ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems, ISCAS 2010
Y2 - 30 May 2010 through 2 June 2010
ER -