SoC Design and Simulation blog

At this year's ARM® TechCon™, Carbon Design Systems did a joint presentation with ARM entitled "Getting the Most out of the ARM CoreLink™ NIC-400."  In this blog, I'll give a high level overview of what…

Part 3 in a four part blog describes a more systematic approach to measuring and validating the system performance of these types of systems and introduces new tools to make this systematic approach practically…

Part 2 in a four part blog describes a more systematic approach to measuring and validating the system performance of these types of systems and introduces new tools to make this systematic approach practically…

By chris.wright and Rupal GandhiWe are part of the team that recently taped out a finFET testchip. It was one of our team’s first  experiences with finFETs and we saw firsthand the implementation differences…

This four part blog describes a more systematic approach to measuring and validating the system performance of these types of systems and introduces new tools to make this systematic approach practically…

Standard Cell Benchmarking: Avoiding Five Common Pitfalls Proper evaluation of standard cell libraries should lead you to select standard cells that will optimize power, performance and area for your…

Memories are increasingly occupying more area in today’s SoCs. So, it is imperative to have an early estimate of the total power consumed by the memories. Memory power consumption can be divided into two…

Hello there!At this year's TSMC OIP event, I presented “Optimizing Cortex-A57 for TSMC 16nm FinFET” and it was a packed auditorium.I would like to thank ARM, TSMC and Cadence for such an impressive colloboration…

Taking a major step forward for advanced-node semiconductor design, ARM and Cadence recently (April 4, 2013) announced the first implementation of an ARM® CortexTM-A57 processor on the TSMC 16nm FinFET…

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In the world of the System on Chip (SoC) end users have come to expect a richer web experience, full HD video, full HD gaming and sophisticated applications leading to embedded processors becoming more…

Working at Arm, I often have a unique and early vantage point to trends that are shaping the semiconductor market. One of the most interesting emerging trends is Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process technology…

The System-on-a-Chip (SoC) ecosystem spans the gamut of designs from high-end servers to low-power mobile consumer segments. A large and heterogeneous set of players (foundries, IP vendors, SoC integrators…

During the ARM® -Mentor® seminar Tuesday, July 17, the nearly 100 attendees heard about the goals and ambitions of the long-term partnership between Mentor and ARM to improve testing of ARM cores…

At just under 14 minutes, with a top speed of 300km/hour, my commute to an airport on public rail transportation has never been faster! I wasn't on the high-speed public rail systems that typically come…

Bringing test patterns for your ARM core or other core-level blocks together for chip-level test of your SoC can present significant challenges. Whether your core-level test patterns are scan-based or…

Power, performance and area or "PPA," as it is called, has become a universally interesting topic to system-on-chip (SoC) designers around the world.  Atrenta -- an ARM Connected Community…

Tri-gate or Fin-FET devices have been scrutinized for about 10 years and are considered a viable solution only when conventional planar MOS devices are not able to deliver the expected performance while…

ARM IP and ARM processor  usage is pervasive across multiple segments of the electronics industry. As shown in Figure 1, each of these market segments have unique design challenges and analysis drivers…

Mobile devices and many electronic systems are powered by batteries. In such systems, optimization of power is a key design constraint. In fact, it is more accurate to look at total energy usage. System…

Five years ago, ARM R&D Fellows Dr. Robert Aitken and David Flynn predicted [LS1] several low power design and implementation techniques which were discussed in detail in their book (co-authored by…