Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined by product manager Valentin Boyer, walked through how the company is bringing AI directly into… Read More
With over a trillion chips manufactured every year and application requirements evolving faster than ever (across automotive, HPC, and AI), the pressure on SoC design teams has never been higher with design space keeps growing and schedules keep shrinking.
Indeed, for a complex SoC project, the number of possible configurations… Read More
Defacto has been a leading provider of SoC integration tools for large-scale designs for years. Most major semiconductor companies already use their solutions, and several customers will be presenting how they leverage the Defacto solution (SoC Compiler) at the upcoming DAC conference.
Modern SoCs can be complex with hundreds to thousands of IP blocks, so there’s an increasing need to have a front-end build and assembly methodology in place, eliminating manual steps and error-prone approaches. I’ve been writing about an EDA company that focuses on this area for design automation, Defacto Technologies, and … Read More
Chouki Aktouf is Founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and Co-Founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering from… Read More
Chouki Aktouf is Founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and Co-Founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering from… Read More
In the fast-evolving world of semiconductor design, chip designers are constantly on the lookout for EDA tools that can enhance their productivity, streamline workflows, and push the boundaries of innovation. Although Tcl is currently the most widely used language, it seems to be reaching its limits in the face of the growing… Read More
When I was at DAC last month, I had the chance to talk with Chouki Aktouf and Bastien Gratréaux from Defacto and they told me about a new innovative solution to generate Arm-based System-on-Chips. I heard that this solution has now been released.
Defacto and Arm developed a joint SoC design flow to help Arm users cover all needed automation—from… Read More
Design projects are becoming more and more complex. The success of a design project is tightly linked to the best preparation. Having an accurate and precise prediction of either project design resources or design parameters, with a plan to react in an appropriate way is crucial and cost saving.
A typical example is the availability… Read More
Defacto continues to confirm its SoC Compiler as becoming the “de facto” SoC integration solution for large SoC designs. This year they are coming to DAC to share customer success stories of building the largest SoCs in the market from specification to RTL + collaterals such as UPF by including thousands of IP cores! All done within… Read More
