Systems and methods for the design and implementation of input and output ports for circuit design

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing input and output ports to connect to channels are provided. Input and output ports are the basic building blocks to create more complex data routing IP blocks. By aggregating these modular ports in different ways, different implementations of crossbar or Network on Chip (NoC) can be implemented, allowing flexible routing structure while maintaining all the benefits of channels such as robustness against delay variation, data compression and simplified timing assumptions.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An interconnect circuit comprising:
 at least one routing port configured to receive data streams from at least one input channel and to route the data streams from the at least one input channel to a plurality of output channels; and   at least one arbitering port configured to receive data streams from multiple channels and to route the data streams from at least one of the multiple channels to an output channel.