The integration level of a system-on-chip (SoC) is defined in RTL, just like the rest of the design. Historically, RTL has been built through text editors. However, a decade or more ago, the sheer ...

For most system-on-chip (SoC) designs, the most critical task is not RTL coding or even creating the chip architecture. Today, SoCs are designed primarily by assembling various silicon intellectual ...

How advanced IC designs are replacing board-level systems. How an eFPGA can empower a system’s design. Designers continue to face greater challenges in the development of advanced embedded systems.

There’s been a significant shift toward RISC-V architectures in SoC design. This article highlights its impact on the semiconductor industry and role in fostering innovation and flexibility in ...

Just to get the ball rolling, let’s start by reminding ourselves that system-on-chip (SoC) devices are composed of functional units called intellectual property (IP) blocks or cores. A modern SoC can ...

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 ...

Vehicles can do much more than they were capable of a decade ago. Today’s modern connected vehicles have many convenient capabilities, from lane departure warnings to automated braking and ...

These days, there’s a tendency to read the word “proprietary” and think “bad,” as if whatever is proprietary is inflexible and limited capability. It’s a legacy from the emergence of open-source ...

In the race to achieve high design performance and stringent power requirements, the VLSI world is moving quickly down the scaling curve to process technologies that ...