tag: network on chip

Executive Insight: Grant Pierce
By Ed Sperling - 29 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

SE: What worries you most? Pierce: At the very top of my list is continuing to attract the talent into the company that we’ve managed to build up over time. Inside of Sonics, it’s a unique situation. We’re at the boundary between system-level architecture and chip-level micro-architecture for having what the system guys are looking for in the silicon. We need expertise in any IP that t... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 21 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Synopsys inked a deal to acquire Coverity, a San Francisco-based security startup that builds tools to test source code for defects and security risks, for $375 million. The purchase price is $350 million plus another $25 million in debt. The deal is expected to close in Synopsys’ fiscal Q2. The company announced its financial results for fiscal Q1 ended Jan. 31, as well. Revenue was $479.0 m... » read more

Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cadence rolled out a new version of its functional verification platform, greatly improving performance and updating it to deal with the big increases in third-party and re-used IP in designs. For IP and block verification, the company said it increased formal analysis performance by up to 20% and simulation by up to 10 times. The debugger also reduces the database size by 10 times and the time... » read more

Arteris Sells Some Of Its IP Assets To Qualcomm
By Ed Sperling - 31 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 1

Qualcomm agreed to buy Arteris’ NoC technology IP and hire some of the engineers who built it, but Arteris will continue to service that IP to new and existing customers. Under terms of the agreement, the two companies also have agreed upon a roadmap for future deliverables of the IP as well as an engineering support contract. Arteris retains the source code for the FlexNoC interconnect IP pr... » read more

There’s A New Paradigm In Town
By Kurt Shuler - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

I recently wrote an article in the October 9th issue of EETimes that appears to have rattled the semiconductor industry a bit. Entitled “Wake Up, Semi Industry: System OEMs Might Not Need You,” the article conveyed the fact that many system-level OEMs now have the capability — and desire — to develop their own application-specific chips. This may be news to many. But a simple review... » read more

More Rigor, Please
By Ann Mutschler - 26 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Semiconductor companies are embracing a single-platform strategy for their SoC designs, but sifting through the options can be quite a feat. While not wildly different from the traditional derivative approach, a single-platform strategy can mean different things to different companies. Sometimes it refers to a platform that is already successful in one application ... » read more

NoC Straight Talk
By Frank Ferro - 25 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Increased interest in on-chip network IP is without a doubt directly correlated to the increase in SoC complexity and performance over the past few years. Some SoC design managers even have gone so far as to say that the success of their SoC program is directly related to their ability to implement an on-chip communications network. Underestimating the importance of the on-chip network has caus... » read more

The Single Platform Strategy
By Kurt Shuler - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler For semiconductor companies in high-volume or emerging growth markets, the days of using multiple platforms to address different segments are over. The new era of using a single platform to address several different segments is rapidly taking hold. Adding fuel to this transition is the greater flexibility that design teams have to spin derivatives of those single platforms. T... » read more

Managing Memory With Embedded Software
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Memory is shaping up to be a key leverage point for embedded software going forward as it represents such a large fraction of the silicon real estate in today’s SoCs. Managing memory effectively and memory bandwidth also represents a significant fraction of the potential bottlenecks and the power dissipation. As such, everything embedded software can do to enhance h... » read more

Faster IP Integration
By Ed Sperling - 03 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down with Laurent Moll, chief technology officer at Arteris, to talk about interoperability, complexity and integration issues. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: What’s the big challenge with IP? Moll: Interoperability is always a concern. Because of ARM’s dominance, a lot of people are moving to AMBA protocols, whether that’... » read more

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