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jzbiciak
6y ago
Fabric is a common term for describing on-chip interconnects in a system-on-a-chip. It's all the wires and buffers and pipeline registers and arbiters and decoders and muxes that connect the components together. It's dominated by
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jzbiciak
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In the case of Infinity Fabric: high speed I/O links generally consume gobs of power just to wiggle the pins, long before any control plane gets involved. In this case, it's high speed differential signaling, and that's going