NoC Design Methods -- Designing Crossbar Based Systems -- Netchip Tool Flow for NoC Design -- Designing Standard Topologies -- Designing Custom Topologies -- Supporting Multiple Applications -- Supporting Dynamic Application Patterns -- NoC Reliability Mechanisms -- Timing-Error Tolerant NoC Design -- Analysis of NoC Error Recovery Schemes -- Fault-Tolerant Route Generation -- NoC Support for Reliable On-Chip Memories -- Conclusions and Future Directions.

Developing NoC based interconnect tailored to a particular application domain, satisfying the application performance constraints with minimum power-area overhead is a major challenge. With technology scaling, as the geometries of on-chip devices reach the physical limits of operation, another important design challenge for NoCs will be to provide dynamic (run-time) support against permanent and intermittent faults that can occur in the system. The purpose of Designing Reliable and Efficient Networks on Chips is to provide state-of-the-art methods to solve some of the most important and time-intensive problems encountered during NoC design.