tag: network on chip

Lightweight Cryptography For The IoE
By Ernest Worthman - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

This is the age where technology is expected to do more, faster, anonymously, and often invisibly. And it's supposed to use less power, with smaller footprints, unobtrusively and intuitively. And all that needs to be protected with cryptography. That's the goal, at least. But as Simon Blake-Wilson, vice president of products and marketing for [getentity id="22671" e_name="Rambus"]' Cryptogra... » read more

As Moore’s Law Slows, Hedge Your Bets With Design Process Efficiency
By Kurt Shuler - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Are you dreading the day when Moore’s Law comes to a grinding halt? I’m concerned, but I’m not as fatalistic as some. Here's why: There are plenty of ways to eke out more scalability in the semiconductor design process through greater efficiency. SoC design realities make it imperative to re-evaluate mature semiconductor processes for greater efficiencies that yield lower costs, higher... » read more

Focus More Attention On The SoC’s Central Nervous System
By Kurt Shuler - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

In multiple conversations over the years, I’ve often compared the interconnect fabric within SoC designs to the central nervous system of the human body. The point that I try to make is that the potential of the SoC’s performance and functionality is tied to the information that travels through the fabric and interconnect to all the on-chip IP components. Improving a chip’s ability to com... » read more

Streamlining Interconnect Integration Accelerates Globally Distributed Design
By Kurt Shuler - 26 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

As system on chip designs grow more complex, it becomes more and more difficult for chip companies to optimize the work of their distributed design teams. While each separate team has an area of expertise and sets their focus on a particular aspect of the SoC, the hard part comes in integrating these individual design efforts together. When something goes wrong and it doesn’t work, the compan... » read more

Tech Talk: SW vs. HW
By Ed Sperling - 21 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Arteris CTO Craig Forest talks about what gets done in hardware, what gets done in software, and where the two worlds meet and sometimes collide. [youtube vid=-EbUTZL0uz8] » read more

NoC Technology: Saving the Planet, One Chip at a Time
By Kurt Shuler - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

In Silicon Valley, the cliché is that we are using technology to change the world in some meaningful way. However, I made some calculations recently and I found network-on-chip technology is actually contributing to efforts to reduce carbon emissions. SoC designers have become the ultimate energy misers as they strive to make tradeoffs between extending battery life and providing game-chang... » read more

Locking Down The Chip
By Ernest Worthman - 09 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

The push toward securing chips is complicated by the amount of third-party IP that is being used inside of today’s complex SoCs. This has cast new light on the potential for on-chip networks to also function in securing signals that flow through those networks. This becomes particularly important with the Internet of Things, because the source of those signals isn’t always obvious to the... » read more

System Bits: June 24
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

Experimental 36-core chip The more cores — or processing units — a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes. For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets, where each core has an associ... » read more

Executive Insight: Charles Janac
By Ed Sperling - 30 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

SE: What’s your biggest concern? Janac: Staying current. One of the things that is really important is to understand shifts in the marketplace. In the past, we looked at whether to target our interconnect solution at digital TV or mobility. This was actually a very interesting question in 2005. The DTV market looked better, but we were not getting enough evaluations. We were doing better i... » read more

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

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