Interconnect-Centric Design for Advanced SOC and NOC

• Physical and Electrical Issues.- System-on-Chip-Challenges in the Deep-Sub-Micron Era.- Wires as Interconnects.- Global Interconnect Analysis.- Design Methodologies for on-Chip Inductive Interconnect.- Clock Distribution for High Performance Designs.- Logical and Architectural Issues.- Error-Tolerant Interconnect Schemes.- Power Reduction Coding for Buses.- Bus Structures in Network-on-Chips.- From Buses to Networks.- Arbitration and Routing Schemes for on-Chip Packet Networks.- Design Methodology and Tools.- Self-Timed Approach for Noise Reduction in NoC Reduction in NoC.- Formal Communication Modeling and Refinement.- Network-Centric System-Level Model for Multiprocessor Soc Simulation.- Socket-Based Design Using Decoupled Interconnects.- Application Cases.- Interconnect and Memory Organization in SOCs for Advanced Set-Top Boxes and TV.- A Brunch from the Coffee Table-Case Study in NoC Platform Design.

From the reviews: "...a collection of edited chapters written by various experts on NoC and on-chip communications design; the editors contributed to several of the chapters and, for the others, drew on several colleagues-including those participating in Complain, the Finnish-Swedish Excite research project. The editors have carefully chosen the topics in this volume to reflect the multiple levels and types of design knowledge required to gain an appreciation of the field... this book is quite useful for educating any SoC design team in many of the areas critical to adapting their designs to future generations of interconnect. It can also be a useful reference text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in SoC and VLSI design. Designers and design educators should take a close look at this book." (IEEE Design & Test of Computers Magazine) "The book is a collection of edited chapters written by various experts on NoC and on chip communications design ... . The editors have carefully chosen the topics in this volume ... . Clearly, the book covers an impressive breadth of topics ... . Each chapter surveys the relevant literature in its particular topic area and provides an extensive reference list ... . a useful reference text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in SoC and VLSI design. Design and design educators should take a close look at this book." (Grant Martin, IEEE Design & Test of Computers, March-April, 2005)