In projects such as the Libre RISCV SoC, commercial grade communications
bus infrastructure is needed. Ordinarily this would mean AXI4 however
-it is not only patented but its patent holder has begun denying licenses
-due to the US trade war.
+it is not only patented but its patent holder (ARM) has begun denying
+licenses due to the US trade war.
The main alternative with large adoption is Wishbone. However Wishbone
-does not have "streaming" capability, which is typically needed for
+does not have "streaming" capability (basically the ability to embed
+"timecode" stamps into a data stream), which is typically needed for
audio and video streaming interfaces.
Therefore this project will write up an enhancement to the Wishbone B4