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A top-down approach for complete, practical evaluation of system communication architectures in modern VLSI systems.

Table of Contents

An Overview of System-on-Chips; Need for Communication-centric Design Flow; Basic Concepts of Bus-based Communication Architectures; Bus-based Communication Architecture Specification Standards; Limitations of Current Design Approaches; Physical and Electrical Analysis; Models for Performance Exploration; Power/Energy Exploration; Design and Synthesis of Communication Architectures; Innovative Aspects; Dynamic Bus Reconfiguration; Bus Encoding Techniques; Interface Synthesis and Optimization; Secure On-chip Communication Infrastructure; Verification; Custom Bus Design; Open Problems; Network-on-Chips; Optical Interconnects; Wireless Interconnects; Physical Design Trends