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The Easy Stuff Is Over
By Ed Sperling - 09 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Doomsayers have been predicting the end of Moore’s Law for the better part of a decade. While it appears that it will still remain viable for some companies—Intel and IBM already are looking into single digits of nanometers and researchers speculating about picometer designs—for most companies the race is over. Progress will still be made in moving SoCs from one node to... » read more

SoC Platforms Gain Steam
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jul, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Platforms are attracting far more attention from makers of SoCs because they are pre-verified and can speed time to market, but the shift isn’t so simple. It will spark major changes in the way companies design and build chips, causing significant disruption across the entire SoC ecosystem. Platforms are nothing new in the processor and software world. Intel, IBM AMD, and N... » read more

Four Factors Driving Processor Choices
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jul, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Choosing processors for an SoC, a system-in-package, or even a complete system is becoming much more difficult, and the challenge is growing as demands on performance, power, area and time to market continue to increase. There are many reasons why this is becoming more difficult—and some designs will require more tradeoffs than others, depending upon IP re-use or a particul... » read more

The Trouble With Models
By Ed Sperling - 28 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Models and modeling concepts seem to be on the tip of every tongue these days. Once the promise of sparking true ESL design, the use of system-level models has settled into something more like enabling software development. There is also talk of leveraging models across the supply chain, but is this really possible yet? The concept of doing this incremental refinem... » read more

Experts At The Table: IP Subsystems
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

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 - 29 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

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

The Moore’s Law Effect
By Ed Sperling - 04 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

Tensilica CTO Chris Rowen sounds off on the role of DSPs in complex SoCs, the future of Moore's Law and the intersection of "big data" with personalized data in mobile devices. [youtube vid=3H9X0X6eO3Q] » read more

Betting On Subsystems
By Ed Sperling - 05 Apr, 2012 - Comments: 0

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

Coherency Becomes A Stack Of Issues
By Ed Sperling - 22 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As complexity increases and the industry increasingly shifts away from ASICs to SoCs, the concept of coherency is beginning to look more like a stack of issues than a discrete piece of the design. There are at least five levels of coherency that need to be considered already, with more likely to surface as stacked die become mainstream over the next few years. Perhaps even mo... » read more

New Winners And Losers
By Ed Sperling - 22 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

The realignment of the semiconductor industry has begun, most of it beneath the radar screen. In a disaggregated supply chain, any piece in isolation looks insignificant. But taken together, these shifts begin to paint a picture of a broad realignment and refocusing of the entire industry that ultimately will cement the fortunes of some and create new winners and losers out of others. The fi... » read more

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