A Novel Mapping Method Concerning Low Power on NoC

Abstract

NoC is an important aspect on the research of the integrated circuit. Low-power NoC is one of the key technologies to promote the applications of NoC. This paper proposes a novel NoC mapping algorithm on how to reduce the communication power. The method can get a better performance by improved max-min ant algorithm, updating the pheromone, and optimizing the weight coefficients and the state transition rules. The experimental result shows that the proposed method can reduce the power consumption effectively during the mapping process and has a good convergence which can accelerate the search process and avoid the stagnation with the compared method.