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Chips with hundreds to thousands of cores require scalable networks-on-chip (NoCs). Customization of the NoC topology is necessary to reach the diverse design goals of different chips. We introduce sparse Hamming graph, a novel NoC topology…

We introduce a high-performance cost-effective network topology called Slim Fly that approaches the theoretically optimal network diameter. Slim Fly is based on graphs that approximate the solution to the degree-diameter problem. We analyze…

A three-dimensional (3D) Network-on-Chip (NoC) enables the design of high performance and low power many-core chips. Existing 3D NoCs are inadequate for meeting the ever-increasing performance requirements of many-core processors since they…

In many modern AI chips and multicore systems-on-chip, embedded applications exhibit predictable inter-core traffic behavior that can be characterized at design time. For such applications, a variety of design-time traffic management and…

Brain network is a large-scale complex network with scale-free, small-world, and modularity properties, which largely supports this high-efficiency massive system. In this paper, we propose to synthesize brain-network-inspired…

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has become a popular choice for connecting a large number of processing cores in chip multiprocessor design. In a conventional NoC design, most of the area in the router is occupied by the buffers and the crossbar…

With technology scaling down, hundreds and thousands processing elements (PEs) can be integrated on a single chip. Network-on-chip (NoC) has been proposed as an efficient solution to handle this distinctive challenge. In this thesis, we…

As diminishing feature sizes drive down the energy for computations, the power budget for on-chip communication is steadily rising. Furthermore, the increasing number of cores is placing a huge performance burden on the network-on-chip…

Novel low-diameter network topologies such as Slim Fly (SF) offer significant cost and power advantages over the established Fat Tree, Clos, or Dragonfly. To spearhead the adoption of low-diameter networks, we design, implement, deploy, and…

Future nano-scale electronics built up from an Avogadro number of components needs efficient, highly scalable, and robust means of communication in order to be competitive with traditional silicon approaches. In recent years, the…

Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ…

Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have been proposed as a promising alternative to classical bus-based communication architectures. In this paper, we propose a two phases framework to solve application-specific NoCs topology generation…

Inspired by the connectivity mechanisms in the brain, neuromorphic computing architectures model Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in silicon. As such, neuromorphic architectures are designed and developed with the goal of having small, low…

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fastgrowing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Nowadays System-On-Chips (SoCs) have evolved considerably in term of performances, reliability and integration capacity. The last advantage has induced the growth of the number of cores or Intellectual Properties (IPs) in a same chip.…

Edge-AI computing requires high energy efficiency, low power consumption, and relatively high flexibility and compact area, challenging the AI-chip design. This work presents a 0.96 pJ/SOP heterogeneous neuromorphic system-on-chip (SoC)…

The rising use of deep learning and other big-data algorithms has led to an increasing demand for hardware platforms that are computationally powerful, yet energy-efficient. Due to the amount of data parallelism in these algorithms,…

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

The MultiNoC system implements a programmable on-chip multiprocessing platform built on top of an efficient, low area overhead intra-chip interconnection scheme. The employed interconnection structure is a Network on Chip, or NoC. NoCs are…

This paper contains a detailed analysis of the current state of the network-on-chip (NoC) research field, based on which the authors propose the new NoC classification that is more complete in comparison with previous ones. The state of the…