BIT ORDERING FOR PACKETISED SERIAL DATA TRANSMISSION ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

摘要

An on-chip integrated circuit interconnect (16) uses a serialization technique to divide a transaction to be transmitted into a sequence of transmission packets which are serially transmitted over a narrower connection. The order in which bits of the transaction are allocated to transmission packets is selected such that higher priority bits required by a receiving slave device in order that it can commence processing the transaction are sent first. This reduces the latency of the system.