System and method for network on chip construction through machine learning
First Claim
1. A method of generating a Network on Chip (NoC), the method comprising:
- applying a process on a NoC specification to determine, from a plurality of NoC mapping strategies, ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies that meet a threshold for a cost function;
executing the ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies to generate one or more NoC mappings;
scoring the one or more NoC mappings based on the cost function; and
generating the NoC from an implementation of a selected mapping from the one or more NoC mappings;
wherein the process is a machine learning algorithm trained against the cost function for the plurality of NoC mapping strategies.
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Abstract
In example implementations, the specification is processed to determine the characteristics of the NoC to be generated, the characteristics of the flow (e.g. number of hops, bandwidth requirements, type of flow such as request/response, etc.), flow mapping decision strategy (e.g., limit on number of new virtual channels to be constructed, using of existing VCs, yx/xy mapping), and desired strategy to be used for how the flows are to be mapped to the network. In such processing, the machine learning algorithm can provide a determination as to if a flow is acceptable or not in view of the specification (e.g., via a Q score). In example implementations, the machine learning decisions can be applied on a flow by flow basis, and can involve supervised learning and unsupervised learning algorithms.
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19 Claims
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1. A method of generating a Network on Chip (NoC), the method comprising:
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applying a process on a NoC specification to determine, from a plurality of NoC mapping strategies, ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies that meet a threshold for a cost function; executing the ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies to generate one or more NoC mappings; scoring the one or more NoC mappings based on the cost function; and generating the NoC from an implementation of a selected mapping from the one or more NoC mappings; wherein the process is a machine learning algorithm trained against the cost function for the plurality of NoC mapping strategies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for generating a Network on Chip (NoC), the instructions comprising:
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applying a process on a NoC specification to determine, from a plurality of NoC mapping strategies, ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies that meet a threshold for a cost function; executing the ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies to generate one or more NoC mappings;
scoring the one or more NoC mappings based on the cost function; andgenerating the NoC from an implementation of a selected mapping from the one or more NoC mappings; wherein the process is a machine learning algorithm trained against the cost function for the plurality of NoC mapping strategies. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of generating a Network on Chip (NoC), the method comprising:
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applying a process on a NoC specification to determine, from a plurality of NoC mapping strategies, ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies that meet a threshold for a cost function; executing the ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies to generate one or more NoC mappings; scoring the one or more NoC mappings based on the cost function; and generating the NoC from an implementation of a selected mapping from the one or more NoC mappings; wherein the executing the ones of the plurality of NoC mapping strategies to generate one or more NoC mappings comprises executing a machine learning process to determine an order in which traffic flows are to be mapped.
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Specification