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FlexWay
Interconnect IP

Entry Level Network-on-Chip IP

FlexWay Interconnect IP

Overview

Enabling SoC Developers
to Create Efficient NoCs

The world’s #1 on-chip fabric is used by the world’s top semiconductor design teams as the backbone on-chip communications for chips targeting the fastest growing markets.

Arteris FlexWay™ 5 network-on-chip (NoC) IP is particularly well suited to cost-efficient, low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge devices and microcontrollers (MCUs).

Advantages

A Complete Network-On-Chip Product

Everything design teams need to create the world’s best SoCs, faster

Flexible Topologies

FlexWay is generated from simple elementary components which are combined by a powerful set of algorithms and an intuitive GUI, making it possible to build the optimal topology for your embedded application.

Small to Medium SoCs

FlexWay supports simple to medium-complexity designs and easily scales efficiently between the two, containing only the optimum configuration required.

Huge Bandwidth

FlexWay is uncompromising in how it drives performant on-chip dataflow despite it’s power efficient design.

FlexWay Key Features

Multi-clock/power/voltage domains and power management with unit-level clock gating
Multi-protocol support including AMBA 5 with QoS bandwidth regulator and limiter
Integrated SystemC simulation & UVM verification support
Import and Export to Magillem tools
AMBA 5 support of DVM 8.1 (Device Virtual Messaging)
On-chip performance monitoring and debug
Debug and trace with ATB 128b and timestamps

Explore additional features of FlexWay, download the datasheet.

Efficient Transport of Data Through the SoC

Arteris CodaCache® last-level cache:

Ideal for NoC applications with data re-use
Improves overall SoC latency and power

Efficient Transport of Data Through the SoC

NoC Integration Automated Flow

Automated flow to leverage SoC connectivity information:

Improved productivity with reduced process
Better quality with early errors detections thanks to the checkers

NoC Integration Automated Flow

FlexWay Product Benefits

Easy Configuration

Through the intuitive FlexWay UI

Automated Verification

Saving hundreds of hours of work versus manual verification test benches

Lower Power Consumption

Advanced power management through clock gating, DVFS and GALS

Smaller Die Area

Fewer wires using optimal NoC transport layer

Product Comparison

Product Comparison Table

Category	Features	FlexNoC	FlexGen
Target Audience and Scale	Smaller-scale MCU SoCs
	Small-medium scale SoCs
	Large scale SoCs
Instances Per Design	Single NoC instance
Instances Per Design	Multiple NoC instances
Network Interface Units (NIUs)	Up to 50 NIUs
	Up to 200 NIUs
	Up to 1000 NIUs	with XL option	with XL option
Compatibility	AXI, AHB, APB, OCP, PIF, AMBA5
Compatibility	ACE-Lite
Smart NoC Automation	Topology generation with minimum wire length
	Scripting-driven regular topology creation
	Incremental design capability
Physical Awareness	Automatic timing closure assistance
Physical Awareness	Floorplan visualization
Advanced Scalability	NIU tiling	with XL option	with XL option
	Mesh topology editor	with XL option	with XL option
	Write broadcast stations	with XL option	with XL option
	Virtual channel links	with XL option	with XL option
	Source synchronous asynchronous bridges	with XL option	with XL option
	Up to 1024 bits data bus	with XL option	with XL option
	512 pending transaction support	with XL option	with XL option
Optimizations	Optimization for performance, area and wire length
	Advanced Quality of Service (QoS)
	Power management and security
	Address and data protection schemes
	Advanced in-circuit debug features
	Multi-cycle SRAM support
	Floorplan visualization
Add-on Options	Memory Re-order Buffer option
	Reliability option
	Safety (up to ISO 26262 ASIL D) option
	Advanced Scalability (XL) option
Markets	Automotive, Communications, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Computing and Industrial Markets

FlexWay Product Options

Seamlessly integrated extensions to the base FlexWay feature set

Option

Resilience: Safety Option

ISO 26262 Functional Safety (FuSa)
Multi-ASIL support
Interconnect-wide ECC support

Learn more about option

Customer Testimonials

Trusted by innovative
 companies everywhere

Arteris is the proven industry standard for system IP with responsive support, and deploying their technology guaranteed we met our performance requirements and aggressive timelines, Arteris FlexWay interconnect IP allowed us to close timing smoothly on a complex, multicore machine learning architecture. We look forward to working together on the next project.