@PHDTHESIS\{IMM2005-04025,
    author       = "T. Bjerregaard",
    title        = "The {MANGO} clockless network-on-chip: Concepts and implementation",
    year         = "2005",
    school       = "Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, {DTU}",
    address      = "Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321, {DK-}2800 Kgs. Lyngby",
    type         = "",
    note         = "Supervised by Assoc. Prof. Jens Spars{\o}, {IMM}.",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4025-full.html",
    abstract     = "This dissertation addresses aspects of on-chip interconnection networks. The scientific contributions of the thesis are twofold. First, a survey of existing research is made. The survey categorizes, structures and reviews a wide spectrum of work in this new academic field, giving an overview of the state-of-the-art. Secondly, issues are covered which relate to the practical design of a network enabling a modular and scalable design flow for giga scale system-on-chip designs. Proof of concepts is given by their implementation in the {MANGO} (Message- passing Asynchronous Network-on-chip providing Guaranteed services over {OCP} interfaces) network-on-chip (NoC) architecture, which was developed during the course of the PhD-project.

The main body of the thesis is composed of a set of research papers. One of these is the mentioned survey, while five other papers explain concepts of the {MANGO} architecture, their implementation, and deployment in a complete {MANGO-} based system. Preceeding the papers, an introduction provides an overview of the thesis and explains the key features of {MANGO,} which are: clockless implementation, guaranteed communication services and standard socket access points. Also, the introduction touches upon industrial use of NoC."
}