NOVA interconnect for dynamically reconfigurable NoC systems

Network on a Chip (NoC) topologies for interconnect offer the possibility of increasing the flexibility and performance of an embedded computational platform. NoC is also an enabling factor for the creation of dynamically reconfigurable single chip systems. In this paper, the NOVA interconnect topology is shown. NOVA is a hybrid topology for NoC interconnect targeted at an FPGA. This topology is able to efficiently support the communication workloads associated with multiprocessor, multi peripheral and reconfigurable systems. This paper presents simulation results on the performance and scalability of NOVA. Also, the performance of NOVA is compared to the star, torus, and hypercube topologies, and is shown to outperform these topologies.