Evaluation of Effect of Buffer Size on NOC Performance

When designing a System-on-Chip (SOC) using a Network-on-Chip (NOC), delay and throughput are two key elements to optimize. Packet Injection Rate (PIR) and buffer size are two vital parameters that have direct effect on the performance of the NOC. Buffer size, play a very important role in order to decrease the number of delay cycles and improve the Throughput. In this paper we study the effect of buffer size increasing on NOC with FULLY ADAPTIVE routing algorithm. In this case study the mentioned algorithm has been chosen due to its sensitivity to PIR. The area of research is partitioned in 3 sections, It is observed that while the PIR is limited in 0.01