NoC
Network-on-chip — routing, arbitration, QoS, and modern NoC architectures.
Advanced 3h 40m readInterconnect
As SoCs grow beyond a handful of bus masters, a shared bus collapses under contention. NoCs replace the bus with a packet-switched fabric.
What you'll learn
- Topologies: mesh, torus, ring, fat tree, hierarchical
- Routing: XY, adaptive, deadlock-free
- Flow control: store-and-forward, wormhole, virtual channels
- QoS, arbitration, and bandwidth allocation
- Industry NoCs: Arteris FlexNoC, NetSpeed