NoC Technology Basics

What is Network-on-Chip (NoC) technology?

NoC technology is often called “a front-end solution to a back-end problem.” As semiconductor transistor dimensions shrink and increasing amounts of IP block functions are added to a chip, the physical infrastructure that carries data on the chip and guarantees quality of service begins to crumble. Many of today's systems-on-chip are too complex to utilize a traditional hierarchal bus or crossbar interconnect approach. Yesterday's village traffic has turned into today's congested freeways.

Arteris network-on-chip technology is characterized by these technological features:

  1. Separation of transaction, transport and physical layers
  2. Packetization of data, which enables variable bit-widths through flexible serialization
  3. Support for any transaction prototocol, whether ARM AMBA, OCP, or proprietary

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