IP Subsystems Are Nothing New
As featured in: I’ve been hearing the term “IP subsystem” lately, and it seems to be the latest newfangled buzz word in the SoC semiconductor and IP industry, second only to “virtualization.” Much of the context for this growing interest in IP subsystems has been inspired from the work of Rich Wawrzyniak in his Semico Research report, “IP Subsystems: The Next IP Market Paradigm – October 2010.”
AMBA AXI and OCP: Behind the Standards
Provides compatibility with ARM AMBA 4 CCI-400 and Cortex-A15 cores while reducing routing congestion, easing timing closure and increasing performance
NoC is not a Noun
Today in the IP and EDA business, I hear “knock” all the time, except people mean “NoC.” It seems everybody wants a NoC, or wants to offer you a NoC. I’m here to tell you that NoC is not a noun.
TI OMAP 5 Platform includes MIPI LLI and C2C interchip connectivity
TI has placed extensive information on their new OMAP5430 and OMAP5432 processors on their web page.
The 3 Evils of Routing Congestion
The 3 evils of wire routing congestion are poor performance, longer schedules, and lower yields
Missing the Point: Semiconductor Industry / Academia Critique
A couple months ago a professor researching in my company’s technology space asked me, “Why doesn’t industry use our research?”
Blackberry PlayBook tablet has OMAP4430: TI confirms at CES
It’s official: RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook brain is the TI OMAP4430 processor. The TI OMAP4430 is a very sophisticated mobile application processor system on chip (SoC) with dual ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores, an Imagination Technologies POWERVR SGX540 GPU and the TI-created IVA 3 image and video accelerator and image signal processor. These semiconductor IP blocks are linked together by a network on chip interconnect from Arteris. The BlackBerry Playbook takes advantage of this multicore goodness while limiting power consumption by using RIM’s BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on the multicore QNX operating system.
The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer: It’s the interconnect, stupid!
I hope my title doesn’t sound too condescending, and I apologize for stealing Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign slogan, but it’s apparent to me that a lot of the talk on the Internet about the Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer is sour grapes.
Busses, Crossbars and NoCs: The 3 Eras of SoC Interconnect History
Network on Chip (NoC) in SoC history: From AMBA AHB, AXI & OCP to the NoC.