By Brian Clinton, Duolog
Today’s heterogeneous Systems on Chip (SoCs) architectures contain a variety of different building blocks like CPUs, DSPs, peripheral IPs, and subsystems. Included also is the modern Network on Chip (NoC), which acts as the central communication glue for these blocks.
The architect of the SoC has to come up with the best way to hook everything together to ensure that the desired applications can be run. Architects fit pieces of the jigsaw together in order to squeeze the required performance out of all the available building blocks in the system.
