Introduction to Open Core Protocol: fastpath to system-on-chip design

This book introduces Open Core Protocol (OCP) not as a conventional hardware communications protocol but as a meta-protocol: a means for describing and capturing the communications requirements of an IP core, and mapping them to a specific set of signals with known semantics. Readers will learn the capabilities of OCP as a semiconductor hardware interface specification that allows different System-On-Chip (SoC) cores to communicate. The OCP methodology presented enables intellectual property designers to design core interfaces in standard ways. This facilitates reusing OCP-compliant cores across multiple SoC designswhich, in turn, drastically reduces design times, support costs, and overall cost for electronics/SoCs. INDICE: In the Beginning.There Were No Standards.- OCP Training Wheels.- OCP Write Operations.- OCP Signals and Signal Groupings.- Basic Signal Burst Extensions.- Read Timing Diagrams.- OCP Tags, Threads, and Connections.- OCP Signal Groups and Phases.- OCP Coherence Extensions: Theory of Operation.- OCP Coherence Extensions: Signals and Encodings.- OCP Coherence Extensions Timing Diagrams.- OCP-IP Debug Interfaces.- Benchmarking Network-on-Chip (NoC) Designs.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-0102-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés