By
William Dally, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Brian Towles, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Description
One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system
components. Interconnection networks offer an attractive and economical solution to this communication crisis and are fast becoming pervasive
in digital systems. Current trends suggest that this communication bottleneck will be even more problematic when designing future generations
of machines. Consequently, the anatomy of an interconnection network router and science of interconnection network design will only grow
in importance in the coming years.
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive presentation of the basic principles of interconnection
network design, clearly illustrating them with numerous examples, chapter exercises, and case studies. It incorporates hardware-level
descriptions of concepts, allowing a designer to see all the steps of the process from abstract design to concrete implementation.
Audience:
Practitioners, researchers and students in Computer Architecture and Digital System Design.
