Interconnect (NoC) verification in SoC design
Ramneek Real (Toshiba), Janak Patel & Bhavin Patel (eInfochips)
EDN (February 27, 2015)
Within the increasing complexity of SoC design, bus-interconnect is a key component which has led to evolution in the design of interconnect with a new socket-based approach. The socket is defined as: the decoupling of IP core and interconnect functionality. The socket-based approach provides interconnect IP to reuse without rework and it provides a bus-independent interface. This allows on-chip interconnect to provide application-specific features. The socket also isolates the cores from the internal switching logic and provides the following advantages:
- IP core decoupling with protocol conversion
- Command translation
- Clock domain crossing
- Width conversion
- Security management features for protecting a specific memory region from different cores (i.e., protecting Instruction Fetch area from Write commands)
- Configuration-based error handling support
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