@conference {73.OtReLa07,
	title = {Rapid Creation of Application Models from Bandwidth Aware Core Graphs},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of: IP Based SoC Design 2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {December 5-6},
	address = {Grenoble, France},
	abstract = {We present a methodology that allows rapid creation of application models from bandwidth aware core graphs that are available in the literature for a wide range of applications and we discuss their applicability to the rapid exploration of multiple Networks on Chip (NoCs) layout organizations. In a bandwidth aware core graph, each node represents a core and the numbers on the edges represent the bandwidth requirements between cores. We describe core graphs in a UML object model diagram and we then have an automatic code generation tool which produces a SystemC description whose behaviour results in a packet generation on every output connection that respects the bandwidth requirements specified in the core graph. We can then rapidly derive a NoC mapping in which a specific floorplan of the cores can be evaluated and compared with alternate floorplan options for rapid design space exploration.},
	keywords = {network-on-chip (NoC), rapid prototyping},
	author = {Otero, Jo{\~a}o and Regazzoni, Francesco and Lajolo, Marcello}
}
