tag: subsystems

The Case For Extensible Processors
By Neil Hand - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Neil Hand In a previous post I talked about how intelligent subsystems are going to impact overall system design. Because many more design teams are going to be required to implement complex processing power into there subsystems, I thought it time to expand on that topic and talk a little about options available to add that intelligence. One size does not fit all The traditional approa... » read more

Software Impact Grows
By Ed Sperling - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As the number of processors and processor cores increase in SoC, so does the amount of software. But unlike hardware, which grows linearly, software frequently grows exponentially. The great advantage of software is configurability—both before and after tapeout—yet it adds many more possible permutations and interactions that need to be worked out. And unlike the old PC m... » read more

The Rise Of Semiconductor IP Subsystems
By Various Writers - 06 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor IP (SIP) market arose when SIP vendors created IP functions that mirrored those found in the discrete semiconductor market and made those functions available to SoC designers in the form of hard or soft SIP blocks. As the SoC and SIP markets evolved, it was a natural evolution that many discrete SIP functions be converged into larger blocks that mimic system-level functions (i... » read more

The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution
By Various Writers - 11 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

The consumer device market is witnessing incredible market space convergence between mobile handheld, automotive, and home electronics. IP vendors, engineers, and system design engineers face a multitude of challenges when designing and developing ICs, systems, or subsystems for the next great portable device. The next cell phone for instance, will not only be a multimedia player, but also a de... » read more

The Rise Of Semiconductor IP Subsystems
By Various Writers - 11 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor IP (SIP) market arose when SIP vendors created IP functions that mirrored those found in the discrete semiconductor market and made those functions available to SoC designers in the form of hard or soft SIP blocks. As the SoC and SIP markets evolved, it was a natural evolution that many discrete SIP functions be converged into larger blocks that mimic system-level functions (i... » read more

The (R)evolution Of Intelligent IP Subsystems
By Neil Hand - 30 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

IP subsystems have gone from talking point to reality in a very short period of time, but most coverage focuses on a hardware integrators view. The system integrator’s view is very different because the task of software integration is now vastly more complex dealing with software from multiple providers, using different assumptions and with different requirements. This effort, already larger ... » read more

Subsystems And Reuse
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The last couple of weeks have been very busy with travel, customer meetings and presentations—DATE in Grenoble, CDNLive in San Jose and, most recently, EDPS in Monterey. Software enablement and IP sub-systems have been the key themes throughout these events, and during Gary Smith’s keynote at EDPS, I realized that subsystem reuse may be a significant step to solving ... » read more

Surprises Abound As Subsystem IP Gains Prominence
By The SE Staff - 28 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

What’s new in the world of subsystem intellectual property? To find out, System-Level Design sat down with Richard Wawrzyniak, senior market analyst for ASICs and SoCs at Semico Research Corp. What follow are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: You mentioned that the cost of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) at 20nm and below is increasing. Why is that? Wawrzyniak: The reason is c... » read more

Proving IP
By Ed Sperling - 14 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

As the amount of commercially available IP in a design increases, so does the level of confusion. Unlike those giant yellow stickers you get with a major appliance that tell you how much energy you’re likely to use over the course of a year and the projected cost range, there’s no such information available for semiconductor IP. In fact, there’s even resistance to provide that kind of ... » read more

The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution
By Various Writers - 31 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

The consumer device market is witnessing incredible market space convergence between mobile handheld, automotive, and home electronics. IP vendors, engineers, and system design engineers face a multitude of challenges when designing and developing ICs, systems, or subsystems for the next great portable device. The next cell phone for instance, will not only be a multimedia player, but also a de... » read more

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