MRBS: An Area-Efficient Multicast Router for Network-on-Chip Using Buffer Sharing
Network-on-chip (NoC) has become the mainstream fabric architecture for chip multiprocessor (CMP) design.Owing to the market-driven advancement of modern applications in CMP, multicast traffic is aggressively increasing to support barrier synchronization, multithreading, and cache coherence protocols.Although here multicast by branching of packets