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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Benini, Luca, 1967-
Networks on chips: technology and tools / Luca Benini and Giovanni De Micheli.
p. cm. (The Morgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon)
Includes bibliographical references and...