An asynchronous router for Quality-of service NoC is presented. It combines multiple service levels (SL) with multiple equal-priority virtual channels (VC) within each level. The VCs are assigned dynamically per each link. A different number of VCs may be assigned to each SL and per each link. The router employs fast arbitration schemes to minimize latency.
Citation:
Rostislav (Reuven) Dobkin, Ran Ginosar, Israel Cidon, "QNoC Asynchronous Router with Dynamic Virtual Channel Allocation," nocs, pp.218, First International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS'07), 2007