International audienceThis paper presents a physical implementation of the DSPIN network-on-chip in the FAUST architecture. FAUST is a stream-oriented multi- application SoC platform for telecommunications addressing IEEE 802.11a and MC-CDMA standards. The original asynchronous network-on-chip (ANOC) of FAUST has been replaced by the multi-synchronous DSPIN network-on-chip. In this paper, we analyze how the DSPIN network-on-chip, originally designed to support shared memory and multi-processors architectures, can support stream-oriented architectures. The physical implementation of both ANOC and DSPIN are presented. Finally, a comparison between ANOC and DSPIN designs in a 130 nm technology is carried out in terms of area, throughput, packet latency, and power consumption
Low power (mW) and high performance (GOPS) are strong requirements for compute-intensive signal processing in E-health, Internet-of-Things, and wearable applications. This work presents a building block for programmable Ultra-Low Power accelerators, namely a tightly-coupled computing cluster that supports parallel and sequential execution at high energy efficiency over a wide range of workload requirements. The cluster, implemented in 28nm UTBB FD-SOI technology, achieves peak energy efficiency in the near-threshold (NVT) operating region: 193 MOPS/mW at 162 MOPS for parallel workloads, and 90 MOPS/mW at 68 MOPS for sequential workloads at 0.46V and 0.5V, respectively. The energy efficient operating range is wide (0.32V to 1.15V), also meeting the design goal of 1 GOPS within a 10 mW power envelope (at 0.66V).
International audienceNetworks on chips constitute a new design paradigm for communication infrastructures in large multiprocessor SoCs. NoCs can use the GALS technique to address the difficulty of distributing a synchronous clock signal on the entire chip area. This article describes two approaches to implementing a distributed NoC in a GALS environment
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