Design IP is a key contributor to innovation in the semiconductor industry today. As the complexity and scale of silicon designs increase, so does design and verification time. Design IP enables ...

The folks at Synplicity have just introduced something they call System Designer. This is a device-independent intellectual property (IP) configuration and system-level assembly environment that has ...

In a previous article, Getting started in structured assembly in complex SoC designs, an unexceptional system-on-chip (SoC) design was shown to contain hundreds of intellectual property (IP) blocks.

As today’s SoC designs grow more complex and time-to-market (TTM) pressures rise, designers are looking for techniques to build and update designs easily. Key elements for addressing these SoC ...

Network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP and SoC integration technology enables higher product performance with lower power consumption and faster time-to-market. The considerable growth of the number of ...

It seems like there’s an almost unlimited array of microcontrollers—from low-cost 8-bit varieties to high-performance 32/64 multicore systems. While some systems require little thought beyond cost or ...