MPEG-based Performance Comparison between Network-on-Chip and AMBA MPSoC

—Using analytical and simulation results, this paper presents comparative analyses between network on chip and shared-bus AMBA using real application traffic with MPEG-2 video decoder in cycle-accurate realistic simulation environment. We show that despite higher channel latency, NoC has higher bandwidth advantage and outperforms shared-bus AMBA, requiring lower frequency in order to decode the video bitstream at given frame rate.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: DDECS
• Authors: Rishad A. Shafik, Paul M. Rosinger, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
• Keywords: DDECS 2008, Hardware, MPEG-2 Video Decoder, Outperforms Shared-bus Amba, Shared-bus Amba