The pattern of designs that are instantiated into the fabric such as a flat or mapped pattern to match a pattern of physical reuse.
Home Node
Manages the coherent part of the system address space. It takes in requests from the Request Nodes, handle snoops, communicates with the cache and DRAM, and handles responses and acknowledgements.
Hop
One or more links that form a connection between a router/bridge and another router/bridge.
Host
A module that connects to the network through a bridge.