Service-oriented Approaches for the Operation of large on-chip Networks

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) specify standards that allow the connection and interaction of heterogeneous hardware and software components in networks of any kind. Similar aims have to be encountered by the emerging network-on-chip (NOC) approaches to design future integrated circuits. That is, diverse components called resources) offer a large number of services which have to be managed efficiently during the operation of such a hip. The arising problems, like for instance service discovery or availability, are addressed by SOAs. Hence, this taper discusses whether and to what extent service-oriented approaches can be adopted for the operation of large on-chip networks with heterogeneous resources and its services, Thereto, simulation results are presented to evaluate different architectural implementations