Back Cover Copy SERIES: Integrated Circuits and Systems 3D-Integration for NoC-based SoC Architectures by: (Editors) Abbas Sheibanyrad Frédéric Petrot Axel Janstch This book investigates on the promises, challenges, and solutions for the 3D Integration (vertically stacking) of embedded systems connected via a network on a chip. It covers the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs. 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures have emerged as topics critical for current R&D leading to a broad range of products. This book presents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures. •Presents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures; •Covers the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs; •Includes state-of-the-art treatment of 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures. Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Three-Dimensional Integration of Integrated Circuits—an Introduction....Pages 3-26 The Promises and Limitations of 3-D Integration....Pages 27-44 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Testing 3D Stacked ICs Containing Through-Silicon Vias....Pages 47-74 Design and Computer Aided Design of 3DIC....Pages 75-88 Physical Analysis of NoC Topologies for 3-D Integrated Systems....Pages 89-114 Three-Dimensional Networks-on-Chip: Performance Evaluation....Pages 115-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Asynchronous 3D-NoCs Making Use of Serialized Vertical Links....Pages 149-165 Design of Application-Specific 3D Networks-on-Chip Architectures....Pages 167-191 3D Network on Chip Topology Synthesis: Designing Custom Topologies for Chip Stacks....Pages 193-223 3-D NoC on Inductive Wireless Interconnect....Pages 225-248 Influence of Stacked 3D Memory/Cache Architectures on GPUs....Pages 249-271 Back Matter....Pages 266-266 Back Cover Copy SERIES: Integrated Circuits and Systems 3D-Integration for NoC-based SoC Architectures by: (Editors) Abbas Sheibanyrad Frédéric Petrot Axel Janstch This book investigates on the promises, challenges, and solutions for the 3D Integration (vertically stacking) of embedded systems connected via a network on a chip. It covers the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs. 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures have emerged as topics critical for current R & D leading to a broad range of products. This book presents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures." resents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures; " overs the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs; " includes state-of-the-art treatment of 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures Back Cover Copy SERIES: Integrated Circuits and Systems 3D-Integration for NoC-based SoC Architectures by: (Editors) Abbas Sheibanyrad Frédéric Petrot Axel Janstch This book investigates on the promises, challenges, and solutions for the 3D Integration (vertically stacking) of embedded systems connected via a network on a chip. It covers the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs. 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures have emerged as topics critical for current R & D leading to a broad range of products. This book presents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures. Presents a comprehensive, system-level overview of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures; Covers the entire architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs; Includes state-of-the-art treatment of 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures This book presents the research challenges that are due to the introduction of the 3rd dimension in chips for researchers and covers the whole architectural design approach for 3D-SoCs. Nowadays the 3D-Integration technologies, 3D-Design techniques, and 3D-Architectures are emerging as interesting, truly hot, broad topics. The present book gathers the recent advances in the whole domain by renowned experts in the field to build a comprehensive and consistent book around the hot topics of three-dimensional architectures and micro-architectures. This book includes contributions from high level international teams working in this field.