Parallel computation has appeared as the most promising technique to circumvent the limitations imposed by power consumption in order to continue increasing computation power, making thus manycore architectures a promising computer organization approach. Interconnecting and coordinating such high amount of computation nodes in an efficient manner is a hot research topic, several approaches to Network-on-chip architectures propose solutions for this. SCALP is a 3D multi-FPGA hardware platform permitting to prototype 3D NoC architectures with dynamic topologies.
