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About this megacore function, Features, Chapter 1. about this megacore function – Altera RapidIO MegaCore Function User Manual

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August 2014

Altera Corporation

RapidIO MegaCore Function

User Guide

1. About This MegaCore Function

The RapidIO

®

interconnect—an open standard developed by the RapidIO Trade

Association—is a high-performance packet-switched interconnect technology
designed to pass data and control information between microprocessors, digital signal
processors (DSPs), communications and network processors, system memories, and
peripheral devices.

The Altera

®

RapidIO MegaCore

®

function targets high-performance, multicomputing,

high-bandwidth, and coprocessing I/O applications.

Figure 1–1

shows an example

system implementation.

Features

This section outlines the features and supported transactions of the RapidIO IP core.

Figure 1–1. Typical RapidIO Application

DSP

ASSP

DSP

ASSP

CPU

Memor

y

Memor

y

Memor

y

Memor

y

DSP

Interf

ace

Br

idge

FPGA

Controller

RapidIO

MegaCore

Function

DSP

ASSP

Serial

Switch

RapidIO

System Interconnect

Proprietary,
CPRI, OBSAI,
Ethernet, etc.