a representation or image of a physical manifestation of such circuits such representation or image can thereafter be used in device fabrication for example by enabling generation of one or more masks that are used to form various components of the circuits in a device fabrication process in the foregoing description and in the accompanying drawings specific terminology and drawing symbols have been set forth to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments in some instances the terminology and symbols may imply specific details that are not required to practice those embodiments for example the term u201c granular u201d is used herein to mean capable of fine resolution e g a granular signaling rate may be resolved to any of numerous signaling rates ranging inclusively between upper and lower standards compliant signaling rates including but not limited to resolution to any value within a continuous range e g any signaling rate within a continuous range of signaling rates further any of the specific signal path widths or lane counts signaling or operating frequencies component circuits or devices and the like can be different from those described above in alternative embodiments additionally links or other interconnection between integrated circuit devices or internal circuit elements or blocks may be shown as buses or as single signal lines each of the buses can alternatively be a single signal line and each of the single signal lines can alternatively be buses signals and signaling links however shown or described can be single ended or.