tag: SoCs

Rethinking SoC Verification
By Synopsys - 25 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 represented a fundamental shift in electronic system design: moving advanced processing power off of the desktop and into the hands of users everywhere, always. This shift has led to a revolution in mobile—the expansion into the Internet-of-Things, with wearables, connected automobiles and homes. This revolution is causing profound technology challeng... » read more

Redefining Progress
By Ed Sperling - 22 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

After lots of wrangling over the whether Moore's Law is alive, dead, or languishing at somewhere in between, that discussion now seems about as relevant as the look and feel of Apple's early Macintosh operating system—an issue that back in the 1980s spawned a very public war with Microsoft. Today that argument is about as relevant as whether Betamax was better than VHS. Whether it's Moor... » read more

Low Power Everything
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

A decade ago, former International Rectifier CEO Alex Lidow pronounced that there were three main categories for saving energy on a mass scale—variable speed motors, fluorescent lighting, and more efficient servers. He was right at the time. Those weren't necessarily semiconductor-driven markets, but they were the place where the most power could be saved. In fact, at the time, the rough e... » read more

What Will Change In Design For 2015?
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

IP Design Essentials For Reliability And SoC Integration
By Annapoorna Krishnaswamy - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

IP is integral to every SoC design. The need for ubiquitous connectivity has pushed the threshold for content in SoCs even beyond the tenets of Moore’s Law. Technology scaling has not only enabled the delivery of increased performance and reduced power, but also rich content through the integration of a wide range of IPs such as radio devices, CMOS image sensors, MEMs, etc., into a single ... » read more

IP Reaches Back To Established Nodes
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Driven by the [getkc id="76" kc_name="IoT"] and wearable market opportunity, [getkc id="81" kc_name="SoC"] developers are shifting backward to established nodes, and what is learned at the leading-edge nodes is being leveraged in reverse as IP is ported backward to improve functionality. [getkc id="43" kc_name="IP"] certainly can be improved to work faster at older geometries, stressed Krish... » read more

ARM and Qualcomm: Enabling The Next Mobile Computing Revolution With Highly Integrated ARMv8-A Based SoCs
By Arm - 06 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

This joint white paper by ARM and Qualcomm examines the forces behind the recent mobile computing revolution and what will be required for companies to succeed in future evolutions of mobile computing. This paper includes how the next generation of the ARM® architecture, ARMv8-A, will enable the next mobile revolution based around the ARM AArch64 64-bit instruction set while providing full sup... » read more

Software Design Moves Virtual Prototyping Into The Mainstream
By Jeff Scott - 24 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 1

With the high level of integration of CPUs, GPUs, and DSPs in today’s System-on-Chip (SoC) and ASIC devices, software is becoming a primary driver of system innovation. This, along with the increasing pressure to reduce system development time, makes it critical to get a working hardware prototype into the hands of the various software teams as quickly as possible. Traditional prototyping met... » read more

Does IoT Change Design?
By Neil Hand - 27 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

Over the past few months, and especially at DAC, I have been struck by the amount of interest in IoT and its impact on semiconductor design. In this post I will look at how IoT impacts the life of system designers — and explore if it really changes anything. Important source of semiconductor growth IoT is clearly important to investors, semiconductor makers, IP and EDA because it expands ... » read more

Rethinking SoC Verification
By Various Writers - 23 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 1

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 represented a fundamental shift in electronic system design: moving advanced processing power off of the desktop and into the hands of users everywhere, always. This shift has led to a revolution in mobile—the expansion into the Internet-of-Things, with wearables, connected automobiles and homes. This revolution is causing profound technology challeng... » read more

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