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Application-specific Traffic Generator  

Yeo, Phil-Koo (Design Solution Laboratory, DMC R&D Center, SAMSUNG Electronics)
Cho, Keol (Department of Electronics Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Yu, Dae-Chul (Department of Electronics Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Hwang, Young-Si (Department of Electronics Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Chung, Ki-Seok (Department of Electronics Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Abstract
Integrating massive components and low-power policies have been actively investigated for system-on-chip designs. But in recent years, finding the optimal interconnection structure among heterogeneous components has emerged as a critical system design issue. Therefore, various simulation tools to model interconnection designs are being developed and performance evaluation of simulation is reflected in the real design. But most of the simulation environments employ traffic generation based on the mathematical probability functions, and such traffic generation cannot fully cover for various situations that may be occurred in the real system. Therefore, the demand for traffic pattern generation based on real applications is increasing. However, there have been few simulators that adopt application-specific traffic generators. This paper proposes a novel traffic generation method in simulating various interconnection structures for multi-processor system-on-chip design. The proposed traffic generation method can generate traffic patterns that can reflect the actual characteristics of the application and evaluate the performance of an interconnection structure under more realistic circumstance than traffic patterns using mathematical probability functions. By comparing the differences between the proposed method and the one based on mathematical probability functions, this paper shows advantages of the proposed traffic generation method.
Keywords
traffic generator; interconnection; system on chip design; application-specific traffic; simulation;
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