Application-Specific SoC Design Using Core Mapping to 3D Mesh NoCs with Nonlinear Area Optimization and Simulated Annealing

Core mapping, in which a core graph is mapped to a network graph to minimize communication, is a common design problem for Systems-on-Chip interconnected by a Network-on-Chip.In conventional multiprocessors, this mapping is area-agnostic as the cores in the core graph are uniform and therefore iso-area.This changes for Systems-on-Chip because tasks

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