Manycore CMP systems are expected to grow to tens or even hundreds of cores. In this paper we show that the effective co-design of both, the network-on-chip and the coherence protocol, improves performance and power meanwhile ...
Lodde, Mario(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-11-28)
[EN] A dedicated control network is used to transmit acknowledgement messages generated by the
coherence protocol, thus reducing the traffic in the regular NoC and improving the overall system
performance