Last year I wrote about Arteris’ introduction of multi-die support for coherent NoCs. This is a very big deal because hyperscalers and OEMs are now building large systems that depend on multi-chiplet architectures and require efficient traffic management between chiplets, in one case as many as 12 compute, fabric/cache and … Read More
Formal verification methods are being adopted at a fast pace as a complement to traditional verification methods like functional simulation for IP blocks in SoC designs. I had a video meeting with Max Birtel, co-founder of LUBIS EDA and learned more about their history, products and vision. This company started recently in 2020… Read More
We are excited to announce that Truechip, a leading provider of Verification IP solutions, will be actively participating at DAC 2024, taking place from June 23-25 at Moscone West, San Francisco, CA. This event is a pivotal gathering for professionals in the verification industry, and Truechip’s presence will be a highlight … Read More
I am pleased to introduce Truechip to the SemiWiki community. Truechip is a leader in the IP Verification – Design and Verification solutions market, one of the fastest growing market segments we track. Truechip has been serving customers for more than 10 years specialization in VIP integration, customization and SOC Verification.… Read More
Bernard Murphy and I spent time with the SmartDV folks in preparation for the Design Automation Conference later this month. Bernard is an internationally recognized verification expert so his feedback is often sought after by emerging and leading verification companies, absolutely. Verification IP is a crowded market so … Read More
This past January, I had postulated that 2017 would be the “Year of the Embedded FPGA”, as a compelling IP offering for many SoC designs (link). As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be interesting to see how that prediction turned out.
The criteria that would be appropriate metrics include: increasing capital investment;… Read More
A key application for embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology is to provide functionality for specific algorithms — as the throughput of this implementation exceeds the equivalent code executing on a processor core, these SoC blocks are often referred to as accelerators. The programmability of eFPGA technology offers additional… Read More
A couple of weeks back I wrote an article about the use of machine learning and deep neural networks in self-driving cars. Now I find that machine learning is also being applied to help build advanced end-to-end QoS (quality of service) solutions for the automotive IC market. With the advent of self-driving cars comes requirements… Read More
Merchant microcontrollers are usually made available in a wide range of variants based on one architecture with different peripheral payloads and packaging options. A couple of companies, notably Cypress with their PSoC families and Silicon Labs with the EFM8 Laser Bee… Read More
