Cell BE - A Network on a Chip

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Network on a chip (NOC) is a paradigm in the design of parallel hardware architecture. It differs from System on a chip (SOC) by featuring generic communication channels between processor elements instead of specialized buses to simplify chip design. Network on a chip systems have the ability to have processing elements operating on different data elements simultaneously without special framework. These characteristics allow better energy-performance characteristics[1]

. The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is a network on a chip design in production by Sony, Toshiba and IBM (STI). The Cell BE demonstrates these characteristics in a high performance, scalable production architecture.

Contents 1 Hardware Layout 2 Component Interaction 3 Scalability 3.1 Roadrunner 4 References 5 See Also 6 External Links

Hardware Layout

Component Interaction

Scalability

Roadrunner

References

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_On_Chip

See Also

External Links

• System on a Chip Wikipedia Article

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