The design of today's semiconductor chips for various applications, such as telecommunications, poses various challenges due to the complexity of these systems. These highly complex systems-on-chips demand new approaches to connect and manage the communication between on-chip processing and storage components and networks on chips (NoCs) provide a powerful solution.

This book is the first to provide a unified overview of NoC technology. It includes in-depth analysis of all the on-chip communication challenges, from physical wiring implementation up to software architecture, and a complete classification of their various Network-on-Chip approaches and solutions.

Contributions by: Davide Bertozzi, Israel Cidon, Kees Goossens, Kwanho Kim, Kangmin Lee, Se-Joong Lee, Srinivasan Murali, Hoi-Jun Yoo