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 …
June 30, 2010
I often wonder why most, if not all, design teams shoot themselves in the foot by choosing a variety of different interfaces for the IP cores in their SoCs? Wouldn’t they save time and money by keeping the integration among multiple IP cores simple? Many design teams have in fact given up on proprietary interfaces …
March 29, 2010
The recent IP-SoC Days, hosted by Design & Reuse, provided an excellent opportunity for IP providers (intellectual property) and IP customers to exchange ideas and requirements and to review the state of the IP industry. Here’s my take on the conference: “Getting no respect” One of the conference presenters called IP the “Rodney Dangerfield” of …