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Simulation Analysis and and Performance Evaluation of Four Innovative Routers for Network on Chip

Network on Chip (NOC) a new design
emerging offers a promising architectural choice for
future systems on chips. NOC architectures offer a
packet switched communication among functional
cores on the chip. NOC architectures also apply
concepts from computer .In our work we analysed
the series of simulation results of four innovative
routers . All the results are useful for design of an
appropriate switch for the NOC.This work reports
experimental results based on the simulation of four
innovative routers using verilog in modelsim
enviornment . Performance analysis is also done by
comparing their simulation results . Performance
analysis is usually done by simulation at the
Transaction Level – TL or at the Register Transfer
Level – RTL. TL provides smaller simulation time,
while RTL provides more accuracy in results, which
is very necessary during the design phase of a NoC.
However, the performance characterization of a large
NoCs by means of RTL simulation is time costly and
requires several hours of computing.The
performance evaluation of a NoC can be also
speeded up by doing it directly on hardware as FPGA
instead of using simulation models.