@CONFERENCE\{IMM2005-04148,
    author       = "T. Bjerregaard and J. Spars{\o}",
    title        = "A Router Architecture for Connection-Oriented Service Guarantees in the {MANGO} Clockless Network-on-Chip",
    year         = "2005",
    month        = "mar",
    keywords     = "Network-on-chip, asynchronous, clockless, guaranteed services",
    pages        = "1226-1231",
    booktitle    = "Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE’05)",
    volume       = "",
    series       = "",
    editor       = "",
    publisher    = "{IEEE} Computer Society",
    organization = "",
    address      = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4148-full.html",
    abstract     = "On-chip networks for future system-on-chip designs need simple, high performance implementations. In order to promote system-level integrity, guaranteed services (GS) need to be provided. We propose a network-on-chip (NoC) router architecture to support this, and demonstrate with a {CMOS} standard cell design. Our implementation is based on clockless circuit techniques, and thus inherently supports a modular, {GALS-}oriented design flow. Our router exploits virtual channels to provide connection-oriented {GS,} as well as connection-less best-effort (BE) routing. The architecture is highly flexible, in that support for different types of {BE} routing and {GS} arbitration can be easily plugged into the router."
}