Cell BE - A Network on a Chip
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Revision as of 23:28, 12 April 2009
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.
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Hardware Layout
Component Interaction
Scalability
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[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_On_Chip
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