A novel critical delay-aware mapping method for real-time digital signal systems with NoC platform

Based on energy-aware mapping algorithm for NoC regular architectures, a new method, MM-Map is proposed, which can automatically map a circuit of real-time digital signal processing system onto the NoC platform with the minimum critical delay for the system in this paper. The MM-Map platform uses generic algorithm to optimize the delay-aware objective which can satisfy the specified constrains such as limitation of processing units and link bandwidth of NoC. The simulation results show that the new method can reduce the hardware cost and achieve an approximate global optimum with a simple procedure and good convergence.