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Communication Buses for SoC Architectures
Pablo Garc´ıa del Valle
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Jos´eL.Ayala
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
CONTENTS
2.1 Introduction ............................................................... 16
2.1.1 Current Research Trends .......................................... 17
2.1.2 Modeling and Exploring the Design Space of On-Chip Communi-
cation ...................................................................... 18
2.1.3 Automatic Synthesis of Communication Architectures ........... 18
2.2 The AMBA Interface ..................................................... 19
2.2.1 AMBA 4 AXI Interface: AXI4 ...