Design-Reuse

Architectures: On-chip interconnect gets off the bus

Monterey, Calif. — Moderate-scale systems-on-chip (SoCs) have grown so similar that most can be described with a single block diagram. A central processor emits a processor-specific high-speed bus ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Brief History Of The Interconnect

The high functional integration of system-on-chip designs today is driving the need for new technological approaches in semiconductor design. Anyone who owns a Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One or comparable ...
EDN

Sonics goes to freeware to encourage interconnect modeling

Signaling the growing momentum of freeware in the EDA space, SoC interconnect synthesis vendor Sonics announced this week a set of downloadable free tools for AMBA-compliant bus interconnect in SoC ...
Semiconductor Engineering

When Does My SoC Design Need A NoC?

Excluding the simplest offerings, almost every modern system-on-chip (SoC) device will implement its on-chip communications utilizing a network-on-chip (NoC). Some people question whether it is ...