10.1 Introduction
Designing system containing multiple applications having almost common set of cores leads to reconfigurable computation. In such a system, the same hardware platform is utilized to implement the applications. In a network-on-chip (NoC) (Dally and Towles 2001; Atienza et al. 2008) environment, the intellectual property (IP) cores communicate with each other using an underlying router network. The routers are often connected in a predefined fabric. Commonly used network topologies include mesh, tree, and star. Out of these, mesh is the most widely used topology due to its regular structure and short interconnections. A reconfigurable computation in any such topology essentially ...
