paper(ipcq): regen alternatives figures + comparison plot + allreduce section

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 19:19:55 -07:00
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@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ with credit return, splitting the control plane into PE\_IPCQ and the
 data plane into PE\_DMA, with head updates riding the payload and tail
 updates riding a 16\,B side-channel credit (\S\ref{sec:allreduce}).

-\begin{figure}[t]
+\begin{figure*}[t]
 \centering
-\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{ipcq_alternatives_architecture_stacked.png}
+\includegraphics[width=0.78\linewidth]{ipcq_alternatives_architecture_flow.png}
 \caption{Per-send data and control flow for the four PE-to-PE
 signalling mechanisms (sender\,$\rightarrow$\,NoC\,$\rightarrow$\,receiver).
 Doorbell and RDMA-CQ each issue two fabric transactions (payload then
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ the payload flit train and returns the tail credit on a side channel,
 so a send is one MMIO write and a receive is a flip-flop read. This is
 a \emph{design schematic}, not a measured comparison.}
 \label{fig:ipcq-arch}
-\end{figure}
+\end{figure*}

 \begin{figure}[t]
 \centering