Design of configurable power efficient 3-dimensional crossbar switch for NETWORK-on-chip(NoC)

In this paper, a 3-D crossbar switch is designed for 3-D mesh Network-on-Chip to meet the current requirements of smaller area, power efficiency and high speed. To increase the overall data transfer rate of the network, the number of ports are added in 3-D crossbar switch and found that it has been working at the same power as the 2-D crossbar switch (with lesser ports). The functional verification of the crossbar switch design has been done on ModelSim6.4a. Xilinx13.3 has been used for synthesis. Also, FPGA verification of the proposed design has been done.