On-Chip Communication Architectures

88 CHAPTER 3 On-Chip Communication Architecture Standards

3.2 SOCKET-BASED ON-CHIP BUS INTERFACE STANDARDS

A socket-based on-chip bus interface standard defi nes the interface of a compo-

nent that connects to a bus-based communication architecture. Unlike the bus-

based communication architecture standards described in the previous section

that defi ne the bus–component interface and the architectural implementation

of the bus, socket-based bus interface standards only defi ne the interface and do

not address the bus architecture implementation. The computational components

are truly decoupled from the communication architecture and its implementation ...