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Record W2002857293 · doi:10.1109/tpds.2014.2360194

An Analysis of Hypermesh NoCs in FPGAs

2014· article· en· W2002857293 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicInterconnection Networks and Systems
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsHypercubeComputer scienceMetric (unit)Set (abstract data type)Parallel computingField-programmable gate arrayAlgorithmComputer hardwareProgramming language

Abstract

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Accurate analytic models for the area, delay and power of the Hypermesh NoC topology, realized with the Altera family of FPGAs, are presented. Hypermeshes are based on the concept of hypergraphs, which consist of a set of nodes and a set of hyperedges, where the hyperedges represent low-latency switches which interconnect multiple nodes with deterministic latencies. Three different switch designs for the hyperedges are proposed and evaluated. Two parallel algorithms are considered; (a) the Bitonic sorting algorithm, and (b) the FFT parallel algorithm. The analytic models are shown to be very accurate, typically within 6 percent. The 2D Hypermesh is compared to the 2D layouts of the binary hypercubes (BHC) and generalized hypercubes (GHC) in terms of area, energy per algorithm, and the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> Energy-Area product</i> . The <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Energy-Area product</i> is proposed as an useful design metric to evaluate NoCs, which combines both the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">cost</i> and the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">performance</i> metrics of an NoC into one. Our analysis indicates that the 2D Hypermeshes generally have considerably lower area, energy, and <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> Energy-Area product</i> compared to the 2D layouts of the Hypercubes.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.918
Threshold uncertainty score0.552

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Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it