Overhead-Free Polymorphism in Network-on-Chip Implementation of Object-Oriented Models

We unify virtual-method despatch (polymorphism implementation) and network packet-routing operations; virtual-method calls correspond to network packets, and network addresses are allocated such that routing the packet corresponds to dispatching the call. As the run-time routing structure is inherent in Network-on-Chip platforms, this unification implements polymorphism for free.1

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Maziar Goudarzi, Shaahin Hessabi, Alan Mycroft
• Keywords: DATE 2004, Hardware, Network Packet-routing Operations, Run-time Routing Structure, Unification Implements Polymorphism