Mesh 2D Network on Chip with an Open Core Protocol Based Network Interface

The demand for system level flexibility and scalability in system-on-chip (SoC) designs is growing. Network-onchip (NoC) constitutes a functional solution to the SoC challenges without overly reducing the system level performances.In this paper, we describe the architecture and the implementation of a NoC with mesh 2D topological structure and an open core protocol (OCP) compliant network interface (NI). We used this architecture to create a 2D multiprocessor system. Results show that our system can reach an acceptable value of saturation point especially with the appropriate value of maximum burst size.