Networks-on-Chip (NoC) is considered to be a kind of viable on-chip communication fabrics for future Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC).With increasing amount of processing elements

on-chip computing and communication performance is heavily influenced by inter-chip communication. A high-bandwidth

low-latency RapidIO-based extension interface is proposed to meet inter-chip communication requirement of NoC-based MPSoC. It is hierarchically designed to improve system flexibility while reducing hardware complexity.Experiment result shows that the hardware overhead of the extension interface is very small

and the effective bandwidth is 8.92 Gbps.