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, …
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 …
November 3, 2009
This week Sonics released its SNAP™ product (Sonics’ Network for AMBA Protocol) for general availability! That means that you can go download it and take it for a test drive… Now! Free of charge! SNAP is Sonics’ brand new, client-based solution for designing on-chip buses for any complex SoC. With SNAP, you can capture, test, …
September 4, 2009
Sonics Application Architect, Pascal Chauvet, discusses the need for IP-XACT vendor extensions for configurable bus interfaces in the latest issue of Electronique International (No 688). EI – 688 – Sonics Publish at Scribd or explore others: Magazines & Newspape sonicsinc