In one embodiment, a design tool for designing a system on chip (SoC) includes hardware mapping logic to automatically generate a channel mapping for a path between a first intellectual property (IP) logic of the SoC and a second IP logic of the SoC. The hardware mapping logic, based at least in part on user input of a source channel associated with the first IP logic, a sink channel associated with the second IP logic and at least one derivation parameter, is to generate the channel mapping according to one of a plurality of derivation algorithms. Other embodiments are described and claimed.