QOS IN A SYSTEM WITH END-TO-END FLOW CONTROL AND QOS AWARE BUFFER ALLOCATION

摘要

The present disclosure is directed to Quality of Service (QoS) and handshake protocols to facilitate endpoint bandwidth allocation among one or more agents in a Network on Chip (NoC) for an endpoint agent. The QoS policy and handshake protocols may involve the use of credits for buffer allocation which are sent to agents in the NoC to compel the acceptance of data and the allocation of an appropriate buffer. Messages sent to the agent may also have a priority associated with the message, wherein higher priority messages have automatic bandwidth allocation and lower priority messages are processed using a handshake protocol.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for executing a process, the instructions comprising:
processing a request for accepting data from an agent associated with a Network on Chip (NoC), the processing comprising:
receiving data associated with the request when the request is associated with a credit for buffer allocation; andutilizing a handshake protocol to process the request when the request is not associated with the credit for buffer allocation.