Mapping KPN Models of Streaming Applications on A Network-on-Chip Platform

Designing complex parallel systems begins with behavioral modeling of applications. The more desired models should be at high abstract level of applications’ behavior. One of this model is Kahn Process Network gives a partitioned model of applications as concurrently communicating processes. At the implementation level of applications, growing demands of running multiple applications on a single chip, introduced Network on Chip as an appropriate interconnection network between large number of IP cores for different applications. Therefore, design way from high abstract model of application to implementation level is becoming an issue. Here, in this paper we propose an approach for mapping KPN model of a streaming application on an architecture based on Network on Chip. We also provide an implementation of the applications using this approach as SystemC model of the architectures to be simulated.