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The design of on-chip communication architectures is becoming more challeng-
ing as the number of components integrated into a single embedded multipro-
cessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) increases due to greater market demands for
convergence devices. The increasing number of components in systems translates
into more inter-component communication that must be handled by the on-chip
communication infrastructure. The pull of multi-dimensional design constraints
such as performance, power, reliability, cost, area, and time-to-market further com-
plicates the communication architecture design process. Designs are expected to
support high performance ...