Performance Evaluation in 2D NoCs Using ANN

Abstract

A network-on-chip (NoC) performance is traditionally evaluated using a cycle-accurate simulator. However, when the NoC size increases, the time required for providing the simulation results rises significantly. Therefore, such an issue must be overcome with an alternate approach. This paper proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based framework to predict the performance parameters for NoCs. The proposed framework is learned with the training dataset supplied by the BookSim simulator. Rigorous experiments are performed to measure multiple performance metrics at varying experimental setups. The results show that network latency is in the range of 31.74–80.70 cycles. Further, the switch power consumption is in the range of 0.05–12.41 μ W. Above all, the proposed performance evaluation scheme achieves the speedup of 277–2304 × with an accuracy of up to 93%. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.