Implementation of Networks on Chip for Flexible Video Processing Applications

Björn Nilsson (MS) and Harry Duque (MS)

Abstract

<p><p>Highly complex systems on chip (SoC) today are inflexible in the communication interconnect between IP blocks. A network on chip (NoC) could be the solution to make more flexible, reusable and efficient designs and to avoid the communication bottlenecks in bus based systems.  These NoCs must offer a great deal of determinism by guaranteeing quality of service for the IP blocks in the design.
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<p>In this project a NoC developed at Philips Research, which offers automatic generation and verification for guaranteed performance, will be implemented for a video pixel processing application. The goal is to make this television application SoC more flexible and for the first time try the Philips NoC within a real application.
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<p>The project includes the following tasks:
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<li>Analyze the demands of the high-end TV application
<li>Select and design a communication network based on
the demands
<li>Design a simulation model of the ASIC and adapt
existing processing block interfaces to the network interfaces
<li>Evaluate the network performance on the parameters:
area, power dissipation, bandwidth, scalability and flexibility
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<p>The project will be carried out at IC-lab, part of Philips Consumer Electronics, in close collaboration with Philips Research.
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