Patent ID: 8514889

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a flexible routing network for a Network on a Chip (NoC) architecture which connects disparate initiators and targets, the flexible network including multiple routers to enable transmitting a first transmission traffic from the initiators to the targets for request networks and from the targets to the initiators for response networks, wherein packetization logic is located at an interface between an initiator or a target and the routing network and is configured to receive the first transmission traffic from the initiator or the target and packetize the first transmission traffic into packets, wherein each packet includes a header portion and a body portion, wherein each of the header portion and the body portion includes one or more standard sized transmission units, each standard sized transmission unit having a control section and a payload section, wherein a payload section associated with the body portion includes one or more chunks formatted according to a common data format (CDF), each chunk including a first mandatory field, followed by zero or more mandatory fields, and followed by multiple optional fields, wherein the first mandatory field is aligned with a first set of least significant bits (LSB) of the chunk, wherein all data transmissions within the routing network are based on the CDF, and wherein the packetization logic is configured to encode the first transmission traffic into the one or more chunks formatted according to the CDF.