On-Chip Communication Architectures

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SonicsMX supports the full crossbar, partial crossbar, and shared bus intercon-

nection topology. A crossbar confi guration can have a maximum size of 8  8,

with a maximum of 8 masters connected to 8 slaves. A shared bus confi guration

can connect up to 32 components with up to 16 masters connected to 16 slaves.

Protocol points (PPs) are used to interconnect different topology confi gurations,

and consist of logic for frequency and data width conversion. Up to 4 crossbar

and shared buses can be joined in a single instance of SonicsMX, to support up to

64 cores. A single register target (RT) component is used as interface to the inter-

nal confi ...