%0 Journal Article %A Yuanyuan Zhang and Guang Sun and Li Su and Depeng Jin and Lieguang Zeng %D 2010 %J International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 45, 2010 %T An Address-Oriented Transmit Mechanism for GALS NoC %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15137 %V 45 %X Since Network-on-Chip (NoC) uses network interfaces (NIs) to improve the design productivity, by now, there have been a few papers addressing the design and implementation of a NI module. However, none of them considered the difference of address encoding methods between NoC and the traditional bus-shared architecture. On the basis of this difference, in the paper, we introduce a transmit mechanism to solve such a problem for global asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) NoC. Furthermore, we give the concrete implementation of the NI module in this transmit mechanism. Finally, we evaluate its performance and area overhead by a VHDL-based cycle-accurate RTL model and simulation results confirm the validity of this address-oriented transmit mechanism. %P 1398 - 1401