Providing temporary use of online, non-downloadable software for delivery and configuration of interconnect intellectual property (IP) technology namely, protocol adapters, switching elements, data path converters, data traffic managers for on-chip and inter-chip communication that allow system designers to permit any number of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) or other intellectual property (IP) blocks to share a common view of system memory; Providing temporary use of online, non-downloadable cloud-based software for delivery and configuration of interconnect intellectual property (IP) technology namely, protocol adapters, switching elements, data path converters, data traffic managers for on-chip and inter-chip communication that allow system designers to permit any number of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) or other intellectual property (IP) blocks to share a common view of system memory; Providing software as a service (SaaS) services for delivery and configuration of interconnect intellectual property (IP) technology namely, protocol adapters, switching elements, data path converters, data traffic managers for on-chip and inter-chip communication that allow system designers to permit any number of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) or other intellectual property (IP) blocks to share a common view of system memory