System-Level Design:Interconnection Strategy

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Interconnection Strategy

Modules in a digital system are usually interconnected in some carefully architected, consistent manner. If point-to-point interconnections are used, they are used throughout the system, or in a subsystem. In the same manner, buses are not broken arbitrarily to insert point-to-point connections or rings. For this reason, digital system design programs usually assume an interconnection style and determine the system performance relative to that style. The most common interconnection styles are bus, point-to-point, and ring.

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