Interconnect processing unit

An Interconnect Processing Unit (IPU)^[1] is essentially an on-chip communication network (NoC) with hardware and software components which jointly implement key functions of different SoC programming models through a set of communication and synchronization primitives and provide low-level platform services to enable advanced features in modern heterogeneous applications on a single die.

References

1. Marcello Coppola, Miltos D. Grammatikakis, Riccardo Locatelli, Giuseppe Maruccia, Lorenzo Pieralisi, "Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units: Spidergon STNoC", CRC Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4200-4471-3

See also

• Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC)
• Network On Chip
• SoC