An analysis and Simulation Tool of Real-Time Communications in On-Chip Networks: A Comparative Study

Chawki Benchehida (1, 2) , Mohammed Kamel Benhaoua (2) , Houssam Eddine Zahaf (1) , Giuseppe Lipari (1)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 Université d'Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella [Oran]

This paper presents Real-Time Network-on-chip-based architecture Analysis and Simulation tool (ReTiNAS), with a special focus on real-time communications. It allows fast and precise exploration of real-time design choices onto NoC architectures. ReTiNAS is an event-based simulator written in Python. It implements different real-time communication protocols and tracks the communications within the NoC at cycle level. Its modularity allows activating and deactivating different NoC components and easily extending the implemented protocols for more customized simulations and analysis. Further, we use ReTiNAS to perform a comparative study of analysis and simulation for different communication protocols using a wide set of synthetic experiments.

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Chawki Benchehida, Mohammed Kamel Benhaoua, Houssam Eddine Zahaf, Giuseppe Lipari. An analysis and Simulation Tool of Real-Time Communications in On-Chip Networks: A Comparative Study. EWILI'19, Oct 2019, New York, United States. pp.5-11, ⟨10.1145/3412821.3412822⟩. ⟨hal-02337871⟩