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StarLink-700
StarLink-700 is StarFive's self-developed high-scalable, high-performance interconnect fabric IP supporting cache coherence, enabling the construction of manycore SoC solution.
Feature

Providing NoC with cache coherence

  • Connecting up to 256 CPU cores, IO devices, and DDR, while maintaining cache coherence within the SoC scope

High Performance:

  • Providing a maximum of 512 MB Last Level Cache (LLC) with Snoop Filter, enhancing the efficiency of coherence maintenance modules and memory hierarchy performance.

High scalability

  • Employing mesh NoC to enhance expandability, and a dedicated control NoC to support control command transmission

Low latency

  • Adopting a semi-custom design approach to reduce NoC transmission latency.

Efficient data exchange

  • Supporting CPU and IO devices to share the LLC, simplifying CPU and IO data exchange, and improving performance

Low power consumption

  • Supporting low power consumption technologies such as LLC way shutdown and Architecture Clock Gating

High reliability

  • Snoop Filter and LLC support ECC (SEC-DED, Single Error Correction Double Error Detection)
Design Specifications

High bandwidth, low power consumption, low latency

Support Component Aggregation Layer (CAL)

Topology: Mesh

Frequency: 1.5 GHz @ 12nm (Reference)

Support up to 256 CPU Cores

Support up to 128 Fully Coherent Master Nodes (FCM)

Support multiple I/O Coherent Master Nodes (CIO)

Maximum node count: 12x12

Single node supports 2-5 devices

Max memory device ports: 40

Configurable data path link width: 128/256/512b