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![]() Free Download On-Chip Interconnect with aelite: Composable and Predictable Systems by Andreas Hansson , Kees Goossens English | PDF (True) | 2011 | 212 Pages | ISBN : 1441964967 | 3.8 MB The book provides a comprehensive description and implementation methodology for the Philips/NXP Aethereal/aelite Network-on-Chip (NoC). The presentation offers a systems perspective, starting from the system requirements and deriving and describing the resulting hardware architectures, embedded software, and accompanying design flow. Readers get an in depth view of the interconnect requirements, not centered only on performance and scalability, but also the multi-faceted, application-driven requirements, in particular composability and predictability. The book shows how these qualitative requirements are implemented in a state-of-the-art on-chip interconnect, and presents the realistic, quantitative costs. ![]() Free Download On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits by Yehea I. 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