Providing multiple decode options for a system-on-chip (SoC) fabric

An apparatus comprising:

• a fabric having an arbiter to arbitrate between a plurality of incoming requests received from a plurality of agents coupled to the fabric to select one of the incoming requests to be handled;
• and
• the plurality of agents coupled to the fabric, wherein the fabric is to pipeline a plurality of target decode requests, each for a transaction, to the plurality of agents to determine a target agent for each of the transactions, wherein the fabric is configured for a plurality of decode options selected from a first fabric decode option in which the fabric provides multiple grants to a selected one of the plurality of agents, a second fabric decode option in which the fabric provides a single grant to the selected agent, a target decode option in which a target agent decodes an incoming request, and a source decode option in which one of the plurality of agents includes source decode information in the incoming request.