Communication energy-aware research of star cluster NoC
片上网络的星型簇结构通信能耗研究

Comparing with the traditional planar structure, 3D NoC are capable of achieving better performance and packaging density. This paper advanced a new style of NoC structure called star cluster NoC based on three dimensions Mesh(3D SCBM-NoC), which could reduce the number of router nodes, and saved the cost of communication. By analyzing the topology of the 3D SCBM-NoC, this paper presented the communication energy model of star-cluster structure, and achieved the mapping of NoC using the sequence method and ant arithmetic. When the number of processor nodes is 16, comparing with 3D Mesh-NoC and 2D Mesh-NoC, the communication energy of 3D SCBM-NoC is the lowest.