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System-on-chip (SoC) design is all about IP management

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 ...
Electronic Design

Optimize SoC Design with a Network-on-Chip Strategy

How third-party interconnect IP saves time, lowers risk, and speeds completion. NoC is the predominant SoC interconnect strategy. NoC IP accommodates multiple interconnect protocols and data widths.
EDN

How to manage changing IP in an evolving SoC design

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.
Electronic Design

DC-DC IP Blocks Meet SoC Requirements

A new family of high efficiency, fixed frequency step-down and/or step-up dc-dc converter IP blocks from LTRIM Technologies are available now in TSMC CMOS mixed-signal/RF 0.13-micron technology. The ...