Whats wrong with the synchronous busses weve been using for years?
While there is nothing wrong with synchronous bus technology, as SoC designs become more complex it becomes increasingly difficult to mange performance, power, and area constraints. As deep sub-micron effects predominate system performance, shared bus topologies become increasingly unable to cope with today’s complex designs. Typically these extra demands require dividing system level interconnects into multiple bus hierarchies across multiple clock domains, adding design time and effort. CHAINworks reduces the time and effort required to design and implement today’s complex SoCs. Our self-timed CHAIN technology allows point-to-point communication at true wire speeds without the limits of a global system clock.
