On-Chip Communication Architectures

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In addition to the bus-based on-chip communication architecture standards

described in Chapter 3, there has been a lot of research on developing custom

bus architectures over the last several years. Such custom architectures attempt

to address the shortcomings of standard on-chip communication architectures

by utilizing new topologies and protocols to obtain improvements for common

design goals, such as performance and power. These novel topologies and proto-

cols are often customized to suit a particular application, and typically include

optimizations to meet application-specifi c design goals. Figure 8.1 shows where

the custom ...