As the number of processors and I/O masters in an SoC continues to rise the need for an efficient and easy to design interconnect becomes critical. An interconnect must provide sufficient throughput and low enough latency for all masters in the system…

At this year's ARM® TechCon™, Carbon Design Systems did a joint presentation with ARM entitled "Getting the Most out of the ARM CoreLink™ NIC-400."  In this blog, I'll give a high level overview of what we presented and also give an opportunity to download…

I created a short introduction to the QVN protocol used with the QVN-400 plugin to NIC-400 and with the DMC-400 dynamic memory controller. This is a non-confidential introductory-level document for those seeking to understand how QVN works and what issues…