Webinar: IP Integration Challenges of Complex SoC Platforms

The explosion of AI and pervasive intelligence has created an exponential demand for increasing compute power, best addressed using GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). This is accomplished by providing an HW platform that runs computationally intensive machine learning algorithms fast and efficiently. That said, both GPU and FPGA vendors have aggressively improved their performance on AI applications. However, the design of GPU and FPGA brings its own challenges. Such challenges include mixing a variety of proprietary and 3rd party IP built from varying layout styles (custom, P&R) and carrying out varying functions (SerDes, RF ADC/DAC, HBM, CPU) with varying layout formats (gds, oasis). Further, there are challenges with IP layout consistency and re-use, different hierarchies sharing IP sub-blocks, preserving golden IP, etc. Also, the size of layout can be hundreds of GBs, which makes loading and viewing the layout a challenge. This webinar covers those challenges to illustrate a methodology that offers optimal productivity and performance.

PRESENTED BY An-Jui Shey is a senior application engineer of Empyrean Software. He is responsible for customer support of design tools and methodologies for SoC design. Shey has extensive experience and expertise in tool automation and design methodology development. Shey received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

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