Looking for guidance re large team designs

I left out another one -- while a partion can have bidirectional ports they MUST only connect to device pins. Bidirectional connections between partitions are not allowed and thus the top design must include an interconnect cloud which implements all the needed to/from interconnects. If every partition communicated in both directions to every other partion, this grows exponentially. In our case the number of interconnects is much smaller but still significant. The PCI Interface exchanges data with each of the other blocks. For the most part the remaining blocks form an input, process, output daisy chain.