What makes the RapidIO architecture an ideal fabric technology?
RapidIO architecture addresses the critical fabric requirements such as architectural independence, reliability and fault management, traffic management (classes of service, graceful degradation, support for thousands of flows), and widely scalable high performance. A viable fabric paradigm also requires the kind of ecosystem depth which is part of the RapidIO technology, containing processsors, DSPs, switches, a full range of IP and software and multiple deployed applications. More about Quality of Service Quality of service is an inherent part of the RapidIO specification, implemented directly in hardware and enabling traffic to be classified into as many as six prioritized logical flows. While the mechanism for forward progress in the fabric relies upon ordering rules at the physical layer to give responses higher priority, the degree to which prioritization results in lower average latency or jitter for a particular flow is specific to the actual implementation. For example, more a
