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<title>Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI)</title>
<h1>Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI)</h1>

The Scalable Coherent  Interface (SCI) is  a high speed,  memory-based
interconnect.  SCI is an  ANSI/IEEE standard  (Std 1596-1992), and  is
widely accepted in the industry. It has high bandwidth and low latency
characteristics and provides better scalability than ethernet.<p>
