The trend towards multi-core and many-core processors has changed the landscape of computers and servers. Now the performance of a microprocessor heavily depends not only on the data path but… Click to show full abstract
The trend towards multi-core and many-core processors has changed the landscape of computers and servers. Now the performance of a microprocessor heavily depends not only on the data path but also on the memory technology and communication technology. On-chip communication networks or Network-on-Chip is a component which facilitates communication between the cores of a microprocessor. In this manuscript we propose an analytical model for the analysis of Network-on-Chip performance based on Jackson queuing networks for applications that exhibit Poisson injection process. The injection process statistics and the traffic profile of PARSEC benchmarks have been characterized. We have shown that injection process of PARSEC benchmarks does not match with the well known probability distributions using Quantile-Quantile plot and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. For realistic benchmarks that does not follow Poisson injection process we propose
               
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