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energy modeling Ye et al. [Ye03] developed an energy model for networks-on-chips. They
assumed that the energy per packet was independent of the data or address of the
packet. They used a histogram to capture the distribution of path lengths for flit
transmissions. They modeled the energy consumption of a given class of packet as
, (EQ 5-5)E
packet
hNh()× L× E
flit
×
1 hM≤≤
∑
=
Figure 5-13 Input queues and partial crossbars in SPIN. From Guerrier and Greiner
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