Energy aware design methodologies for application specific NoC

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has emerged as a solution for communication framework for high-performance nanoscale architecture. One important aspect, in addition to deadlock-free routing, is low power consumption. In view of varied communication requirements, application specific SoC design is increasingly important. Customized NoC architectures are more suitable for a particular application, and do not necessarily conform to regular topologies. In this work, a methodology using the priori knowledge of the application's communication characteristic for the design of customized and energy optimized irregular NoC is proposed.