Reconfigurable Processor Core Design for Network-on-a-Chip

Abstract

Today, the cost of mask in SoC is increasing rapidly. Designing a complex system-ona- chip (SoC) confronts many challenges. Networkson- a-chip (NoC) is a new architectural template, which helps to meet many of these challenges and enables fast time to market for new designs. How to transfer high-speed and macro data for computing and reusing macro transistors proves to be more and more important in the area of IC design. The reconfigurable processor turns into a research focus by many SoC researchers in the world. This paper offers a new powerful, flexible, and reusable reconfigurable processor for NoC, which will process no matter general or special purpose applications with high performance. It could handle software well like a superscalar CPU and process some special applications with macro data efficiently like an ASIC. Our results show that the reconfigurable processor design greatly improves the performance than traditional processor design.