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i do wonder what the ARM license is being used for - acting as an interface to the cores themselves?

Looks like an FPGA with only the DSPs and no logic units.

The SoC is probably used in the same way (high level tasks like networking etc.) as it is in FPGA land.

Agreed. I've seen a few similar mockups that used a processor IP as the chip-level "traffic cop".