The SoC philosophy revolves around the technique of Platform-Based Design (PBD) [7], which advocates the reuse of Intellectual Property (IP) cores in flexible design templates that can be customized accordingly to satisfy the demands of particular implementations.
MICRO-Architectural Exploration.- A Baseline NoC Architecture.- ViChaR: A Dynamic Virtual Channel Regulator for NoC Routers [39].- RoCo: The Row–Column Decoupled Router – A Gracefully Degrading and Energy-Efficient Modular Router Architecture for On-Chip Networks [40].- Exploring FaultoTolerant Network-on-Chip Architectures [37].- On the Effects of Process Variation in Network-on-Chip Architectures [45].- MACRO-Architectural Exploration.- The Quest for Scalable On-Chip Interconnection Networks: Bus/NoC Hybridization [15].- Design and Management of 3D Chip Multiprocessors Using Network-In-Memory (NetInMem) [43].- A Novel Dimensionally-Decomposed Router for On-Chip Communication in 3D Architectures [44].- Digest of Additional NoC MACRO-Architectural Research.- Conclusions and Future Work.