New Methodology for Feasible Reconfigurable Real-Time Network-on-Chip NoC

Imen Khemaissia, Olfa Mosbahi, Mohamed Khalgui, Zhiwu Li

2016

Abstract

The current research paper is interested in flexible reconfigurable real-time Network-on-Chip (NoC) in Multiprocessors System-on-Chip MPSoC architectures. A NoC is composed of several nodes where each one consists of a processor and a router. The reconfiguration of a processor is any operation that permits the addition-removal-update of periodic dependent OS (Operating System) tasks that are sharing resources. For two added dependent tasks assigned to different processors, a message is added automatically on the NoC. After any reconfiguration scenario, several real-time constraints cannot be satisfied since a task can miss its deadline and a message can take a long time to arrive to its destination. In order to re-obtain the system feasibility, we propose a new approach that is called CRM (abrev. Cynapsys Reconfigurable MPSoC). A multi-agent architecture based on a master/slave model is defined where a slave agent is assigned to each node to control its local feasibility after any reconfiguration scenario, and a master is proposed for the whole architecture if any perturbation occurs at run-time by proposing software or hardware solutions. A developed tool at LISI laboratory and Cynapsys is implemented for a real case study in order to evaluate the paper’s contribution.

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Khemaissia I., Mosbahi O., Khalgui M. and Li Z. (2016). New Methodology for Feasible Reconfigurable Real-Time Network-on-Chip NoC . In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-194-6, pages 249-257. DOI: 10.5220/0005992002490257


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@conference{icsoft-ea16,
author={Imen Khemaissia and Olfa Mosbahi and Mohamed Khalgui and Zhiwu Li},
title={New Methodology for Feasible Reconfigurable Real-Time Network-on-Chip NoC},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={249-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005992002490257},
isbn={978-989-758-194-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016)
TI - New Methodology for Feasible Reconfigurable Real-Time Network-on-Chip NoC
SN - 978-989-758-194-6
AU - Khemaissia I.
AU - Mosbahi O.
AU - Khalgui M.
AU - Li Z.
PY - 2016
SP - 249
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0005992002490257