Virtual channel designs for guaranteeing bandwidth in asynchronous network-on-chip

Proceedings - Norchip

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 269-272

  Bjerregaard, Tobias ^a   Sparsæ, Jens ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA ACQUISITION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BEST EFFORT (BE) TRAFFIC; GUARANTEED SERVICES (GS); NETWORK-ON-CHIP; VIRTUAL CHANNELS (VC);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 21244439915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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