%0 Journal Article %T Exploring Alternative Topologies for Network-on-Chip Architectures %A Shafi Patel %A Parag Parandkar %A Sumant Katiyal %A Ankit Agrawal %J BVICAM's International Journal of Information Technology %D 2011 %I Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management %X With increase in integration density and complexity of the system-on-Chip (SOC), the conventional interconnects are not suitable to fulfill the demands. The application of traditional network technologies in the form of Network-on-Chip is a potential solution. NoC design space has many variables. Selection of a better topology results in lesser complexities and better power-efficiency. In the proposed work, key research area in Network-on-chip design targeting communication infrastructure specially focusing on optimized topology design is worked upon. The simulation is modeled using a conventional network simulator tool packet tracer 5.3, in which by selecting proposed Topology 35.7 % reduction in traversing the longest path is observed. %K NoC %K SoC %K Routing %K Mesh %K packet tracer %U http://www.bvicam.ac.in/bijit/Downloads/pdf/issue6/08.pdf