• CoreLink NIC-400: a great interconnect for wearables and entry-level smartphones
    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 an...
  • Migrating ARM Linux from CoreLink CCI-400 Systems to CoreLink CCN-504
    Recently, Carbon released the first ARMv8 Linux CPAK utilizing the ARM CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network on Carbon System Exchange . The CCN family of interconnect offers a wide range of high bandwidth...
  • Optimization of Systems Containing the Arm CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network
    The first Carbon Performance Analysis Kit (CPAK) demonstrating the AMBA 5 CHI protocol has been released on Carbon System Exchange . The design features the Arm Cortex-A57 configured for AMBA 5 CHI...
  • Exploring the ARM CoreLink™ CCI-500 performance envelope – Part 2
    Introduction In Part 1 of this blog series (found here ) we introduced the ARM CoreLink TM CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect and described some of the new configurable features which are available over...
  • Introduction to the QVN Protocol
    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...