The increasing integration densities made available by shrinking of device geometries will have to be exploited to meet the computational requirements of applications from different domains, such as multimedia processing, high-end gaming, biomedical signal processing, advanced networking services, automotive, or ambient intelligence. Interestingly, the request for scalable performance is being posed not only to high-performance microprocessors, which have been tackling this challenge for a long time, but also to embedded computing systems. As an example, systems designed for ambient intelligence are increasingly based on high-speed digital signal processing with computational loads ranging from 10 MOPS for lightweight audio processing, 3 GOPS for video processing, 20 GOPS for multilingual conversation interfaces, and up to 1 TOPS for synthetic video generation. This computational challenge has to be addressed at manageable power levels and affordable costs [BOE02]. Such a performance c...
Networks-on-Chip: an Interconnection Fabric for Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip
BERTOZZI, Davide;
2009
Abstract
The increasing integration densities made available by shrinking of device geometries will have to be exploited to meet the computational requirements of applications from different domains, such as multimedia processing, high-end gaming, biomedical signal processing, advanced networking services, automotive, or ambient intelligence. Interestingly, the request for scalable performance is being posed not only to high-performance microprocessors, which have been tackling this challenge for a long time, but also to embedded computing systems. As an example, systems designed for ambient intelligence are increasingly based on high-speed digital signal processing with computational loads ranging from 10 MOPS for lightweight audio processing, 3 GOPS for video processing, 20 GOPS for multilingual conversation interfaces, and up to 1 TOPS for synthetic video generation. This computational challenge has to be addressed at manageable power levels and affordable costs [BOE02]. Such a performance c...I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
