DYNAMIC VIRTUAL SOFTWARE PIPELINING ON A NETWORK ON CHIP

A NOC for dynamic virtual software pipelining including IP blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers, each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller, the NOC also including: a computer software application segmented into stages, each stage comprising a flexibly configurable module of computer program instructions identified by a stage ID, each stage assigned to a thread of execution on an IP block; and each stage executing on a thread of execution on an IP block, including a first stage executing on an IP block, producing output data and sending by the first stage the produced output data to a second stage, the output data including control information for the next stage and payload data; and the second stage consuming the produced output data in dependence upon the control information.