Research Article

Low Latency Network-on-Chip Router Microarchitecture Using Request Masking Technique

Table 3

Hardware utilization summary of one NoC router on Cyclone IV & Stratix IV Altrea FPGA.

4 VCs/4 flits per VC EP4CE115EP4SGX230
Proposed NoC CONNECT two-clock CONNECT one-clock Proposed NoC CONNECT two-clock CONNECT one-clock

Logic cells (LCs) 2,890 (2.5%) 5,934 (5.2%) 5,690 (5.0%) 2,722 (1.5%) 5,473 (3%) 5,570 (3%)
Memory blocks (M9K) 5 (1.2%) 5 (0.6%)
Maximum frequency  88 MHz  65 MHz 41 MHz  177 MHz  148 MHz  91 MHz