ARM NIC-301 Network Card User Manual


 
Introduction
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r1p2-r2p0 Contains the following differences in functionality:
Network of interconnects instead of a single interconnect
Optimized translation latency replaces additive translation latency
Single cycle arbitration instead of arbitration switching delay
Enhanced buffering to reduce stalls
Multiple outstanding downsizer transactions instead of limited outstanding
downsizer transactions
Upsizer packs data into the wide bus, instead of an expander, for data width
changes
Global dynamic QoS instead of local static QoS
Internally programmable instead of externally programmed
System-level address map replaces an address map for each interconnect
Extended timing closure options replace limited timing closure options
256-bit maximum data width instead of 128-bit maximum data width
Multi-region slave support replaces a single region per slave
Write FIFO, transaction release control instead of fixed write transaction
release point.
See Appendix A Revisions.
r2p0-r2p1 Contains no differences in functionality.