Introduction to Open Core Protocol: Fastpath to System-on-Chip Design

This book introduces Open Core Prool (OCP) not as a conventional hardware communications prool but as a meta-prool: 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 designe...