DyNoC: A Dynamic Infrastructure for Communication in Dynamically Reconfigurable Devices

TL;DR

This paper introduces DyNoC, a dynamic network on chip infrastructure enabling efficient, obstacle-aware communication among modules on reconfigurable devices, ensuring deadlock-free routing and practical applicability.

Contribution

It presents a novel dynamic NoC infrastructure with routing methods that handle obstacles and reconfiguration, ensuring reliable communication in reconfigurable devices.

Findings

Proves reachability of components and pins in DyNoC

Demonstrates deadlock-freeness of the routing methodology

Shows feasibility through real-life application examples

Abstract

A new paradigm to support the communication among modules dynamically placed on a reconfigurable device at run-time is presented. Based on the network on chip (NoC) infrastructure, we developed a dynamic communication infrastructure as well as routing methodologies capable to handle routing in a NoC with obstacles created by dynamically placed components. We prove the unrestricted reachability of components and pins, the deadlock-freeness and we finally show the feasibility of our approach by means on real life example applications.