May 15, 2013
Recently, Sonics and ARM entered into an agreement whereby ARM licensed a significant portion of Sonics’ patent portfolio. Sonics, Inc. is one of the leading providers of connectivity IP often referred to as network-on-chip, or NoC. ARM is the leading provider of processor intellectual property (IP). The potential scope of their relationship is huge…
April 30, 2013
Sonics licenses interconnect patent portfolio to ARM® and expands companies’ cooperation on advanced power management and interconnect technology Milpitas, Calif. – April 30, 2013 – Sonics Inc., the leader of system IP for cloud-scale systems-on-chip (SoC), today announced that ARM has licensed Sonics patent portfolio currently consisting of 138 properties for use in ARM products …
November 17, 2011
As featured in: One of the major advances in SoC design methodologies more than a decade ago was the decoupling of the network-on-chip (NoC) from the individual IP cores throughout the SoC. This was (and is) accomplished through the use of carefully specified sockets such as OCP, the old VSIA VCI and (somewhat later) AMBA-AXI, …
September 20, 2010
Sonics is attacking the memory bottleneck and bandwidth challenge head on. Last week, the company introduced MemMax AMP, the first highly sophisticated standalone, dynamic memory scheduler that allows designers to achieve superior memory efficiencies beyond today’s basic scheduler or controller solutions. [Read EETimes article on MemMax AMP here!]. MemMax AMP can be dropped into any …