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10 years ago

How to implement an NoC (Network on Chip) in my DE1-SOC (Nios-II, Qsys)?

I was wondering if it's possible to implement a simple Network-on-Chip with for example, 100 Cores, connected with routers in a torus network? What resources of my DE1-SOC can I use for this? Nios-II...
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10 years ago

You can build whatever you like. It's an FPGA full of register and gates that can all connect to one another. Maybe you're after avalon streaming? ie. pass data from point A to point B. How you route it is up to you. Avalon streaming is only a basic pipe - you can put whatever network layer inside of it you wish.