Network on Chip (NoC) - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Power Analysis and Optimization (UG907)

Document ID
UG907
Release Date
2020-11-24
Version
2020.2 English

The Versal™ Network on Chip (NoC) is a high bandwidth interface within a Versal ACAP. It allows high bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS) support for all resources on a Versal ACAP. NoC is an AXI-interconnecting network used for sharing the data among IP endpoints in the programmable logic (PL), the processing system (PS), and other hard blocks. A single physical NoC channel can be shared by traffic with different latency or bandwidth requirements. The NoC is configured using the NoC compiler to setup the required connections and the QoS. Report power uses the output of the NoC compiler automatically to estimate the power for your NoC configuration. For more information, see Versal ACAP Programmable Network on Chip and Integrated Memory Controller LogiCORE IP Product Guide (PG313) . The following figure shows the NoC view in the Vivado® IP integrator:

Figure 1. NoC View

The following figure shows the NoC QoS view:

Figure 2. NoC QoS View

The following figure shows the NoC Power view generated by the report power command:

Figure 3. NoC Power View
Note: Currently NoC clock gating is disabled, which means, irrespective of NoC usage, all the NoC clock buffers are enabled after the device is programmed. Hence, you may observe higher power reported by the tool in the NoC section. The clock gating feature will be enabled in the next version of the tool.

Vivado/Vitis generates .xpe file during implementation runs as well as during NoC compiler runs. These .xpe files can be imported to the XPE tool using import functionality for performing detailed what-if analysis. For more information, see Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Power Analysis and Optimization (UG1275).