EMBEDDED TUTORIAL:
OpenSoC: A Flexible, Parameterizable, Open NoC Generation Tool
When: September 17th, 2014

Organizers:
Farzad Fatollahi-Fard - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Donofrio - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George Michelogiannakis - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


The goal of this tutorial is to educate the NoC community on OpenSoC Fabric, an ongoing project to create an open source network-on-chip generator capable of creating a synthesizable network for connecting processors, memory and I/O devices. We will provide attendees with a virtual machine preloaded with all the necessary tools and will then guide them on how to build their own networks; producing both a functional C++ model and synthesizable Verilog. We will highlight the new approaches we took, and teach users how to use the infrastructure and tailor it to their application. This tutorial is aimed towards researchers, experienced and new, who are looking for evaluation infrastructures for their research ideas, especially for future largescale chips.