March 22, 2012
As featured in: Speed is the shiny object, the undisputed premium, and in many ways, the ultimate carrot with customers when designing advanced SoCs. There are a few moments when the conversation temporarily shifts to area, or some special feature, but we always come back to speed, or more specifically, frequency. This is without a …
September 26, 2011
System-Level Design recently interviewed Sonics CEO, Grant Pierce, about the future SoC design.
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 …
July 2, 2009
I did not expect attending MemCon last week would be the impetus to drag me ‘kicking-and-screaming’ into the social networking age. While I struggled with Twitter being a natural part of my daily routine, my resistance seemed to somehow be an admission that I am getting older (which I don’t mind admitting). But as a …