The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution


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

Verify This


By Frank Ferro Verify this? No, New Jersey in me is not coming out. This is not a pejorative; it is simply a request and a question. It is a request by SoC designers to the verification team. It is also the verification’s team response when they realize the enormity of the task: “You want me to verify this?” As I continue the discussion on the use of System IP for SoC design, one of ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Coherency


By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss coherency with Mirit Fromovich, principal solutions engineer at Cadence; Drew Wingard, CTO of Sonics; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta, and Marcello Coppola, technical director at STMicroelectronics. What follow are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: How do we bring software more in line with the hardware to impr... » read more

Experts At The Table: IP Subsystems


By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down to discuss the transition to IP subsystems with Kevin Meyer, vice president of design enablement strategy and alliances at GlobalFoundries; Steve Roddy, vice president of marketing at Tensilica; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta; and Adam Kablanian, CEO of Memoir Systems. What follows are excerpts of that con... » read more

Experts At The Table: IP Subsystems


By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down to discuss the transition to IP subsystems with Kevin Meyer, vice president of design enablement strategy and alliances at GlobalFoundries; Steve Roddy, vice president of marketing at Tensilica; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta; and Adam Kablanian, CEO of Memoir Systems. What follows are excerpts of that co... » read more

Betting On Subsystems


By Ed Sperling One of the consistent trends among successful companies, particularly in well-established industries, is that over time labor becomes specialized. No one can do everything well, and the more complex the systems the more pieces have to be outsourced. This creates immediate benefits for companies putting together the overall systems. They can focus on designs and doing what the... » read more

What’s A Subsystem?


The interchangeability of IP has proved to be a myth. While large companies have been able to tap into their internally developed IP quite successfully, the ability to use commercially available IP has proved to be limited—particularly outside of the standard IP world. That will change, but not in the way most of the small IP companies actually expected. While the barrier to entry for deve... » read more

The Growing Importance Of Subsystems


By Ed Sperling A growing reliance on third-party IP is beginning to expand well beyond just IP blocks and into full subsystems, opening significant growth opportunities for companies competing in this market as well as enormous business and technical challenges. The IP market is ripe for this kind of convergence. Complexity at advanced process nodes coupled with time-to-market demands has e... » read more

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