Communication Refinement
Standard interfaces constitute the backbone of an IP market: abstract form the concerns of hardware implementation (multi-target VC), abstract from the concerns of a particular bus (bus-independent VC)
system transaction, «ANY» data structure (e.g. video line)
«ANY BUS» operation (data, address...)
VSI-Alliance OCB Group. Virtual Component Interface (VCI)
Physical Bus (e.g. PIBus)
Communication Interface (e.g. bounded FIFO)
Source: Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni