Performance Analysis and Verification of SoC Interconnects

By _arm - arm Blogs

October 4, 2012

In the world of the System on Chip (SoC) end users have come to expect a richer web experience, full HD video, full HD gaming and sophisticated applications leading to embedded processors becoming more powerful; wired and wireless communications becoming faster; and graphics and audio becoming more capable. As a result, the role of the interconnect that connects all these data producers and consumers together is becoming more demanding. To meet the increased demands, new protocols (AXI4TM, ACETM, ACE-LiteTM), new Corelink™ NIC-400™ Interconnect, with new features such as Quality of Service (QoS-400™), QoS Virtual Networks (QVN-400™), and Memory Management Units are being added to the interconnect. All of these have to be thoroughly understood to get the best performance out of your SoC.

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