Introduction to Open Core Protocol [electronic resource] : Fastpath to System-on-Chip Design /
Schwaderer, W David.author.
Schwaderer, David
Salminen, Erno.
Lehtonen, Lasse.
Hämäläinen, Timo D.
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 designs which, in turn, drastically reduces design times, support costs, and overall cost for electronics/SoCs. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Open Core Protocol, which is more accessible than the full specification; Designed as a hands-on, how-to guide to semiconductor design; Includes numerous, real "usage examples" which are not available in the full specification; Integrates coverage of design methodology discussing why cores are structured the way they are, whereas the official OCP specification only answers what the structure is.
"With chapter 12 contributed by Erno Salminen, Lasse Lehtonen, and Timo D. Hämäläinen."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 designs which, in turn, drastically reduces design times, support costs, and overall cost for electronics/SoCs. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Open Core Protocol, which is more accessible than the full specification; Designed as a hands-on, how-to guide to semiconductor design; Includes numerous, real "usage examples" which are not available in the full specification; Integrates coverage of design methodology discussing why cores are structured the way they are, whereas the official OCP specification only answers what the structure is.
Electronic circuits.
Electronics.
Microelectronics.
Microprocessors.
Circuits and Systems.
Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.
Processor Architectures.