Performance estimation technique for optimizing and integrating IPs in MPSoCs

Over the last decade, the complexity of system-on-chips (SoCs) has continuously increased owing to the increasing demand for high performance IPs and SoCs. However, the productivity of chip designers has not scaled up at the same rate. This has led to an enormous design productivity gap. At the same time, the increasing time-to-market pressure...

Low Power Evaluation for Arbitration and MPSoC

This thesis presents a power analysis for various arbitration schemes. We chose variations on the round-robin and time-division multiplexing schemes as our arbiter configurations. The arbiters were implemented with 90 nm low-power standard cell libraries from TSMC, and gate-level power extraction was performed. Clock-gating was optionally...

3D Architecture Exploration for Multimedia Applications

Three-Dimensional (3D) silicon integration is an emerging technology that vertically stacks multiple silicon circuit layers. It enables a single chip to be divided over multiple layers, which are stacked on top of each other. A literature study is performed for this thesis, which presents the basic manufacturing techniques for this emerging...

Modular RT-Motion USB Software Framework

Philips Applied Technologies has developed the RT-Motion USB platform as a compact distributed real-time motion control platform, but the platform can still be improved by developing a more advanced software framework. The goal of this thesis project is to design a modular software framework to complement the RT-Motion USB platform with...

Design of a Portable and Customizable Microprocessor for Rapid System Prototyping

Due to the increasing number of processors which are integrated in System On Chips (SOCs) the need for robust, highly configurable processors emerged. Preliminary research showed that commercial processors are not suited for many research projects due to the fact that they are closed source and they can not be modified. Open source processors on...

Design of a high-performance buffered crossbar switch fabric using network on chip

High-performance routers constitute the basic building blocks of the Internet. The wide majority of today's high-performance routers are designed using a crossbar fabric switch as interconnect topology. The buffered crossbar (CICQ) switching architecture is known to be the best crossbar-based architecture for routers design. However, CICQs...

Monitoring of and traf?c generators for networks on chip using the aethereal platform