SoC Design and Simulation blog

Arm Design Reviews are an Arm service whereby expert engineers visit our partners to perform a detailed review of a particular stage of the design cycle.

Picking the right solution for your next SoC, requires combining lots of different elements together. In order to make this process a little easier, Arm created the Arm Corstone Foundation IP and they…

This tutorial explains how to create a simple SystemC model using Cycle Model Studio and run it with a Verilog testbench using EDA partner simulators.

There are some significant challenges assembling server SoCs for the infrastructure market with the latest PCIExpress gen4 capabilities, this blog provides a brief overview of the challenges which will…

In this blog we will dig a little deeper into what PSLib supports and how it can be used Out-of-the-box to create a rich variety of coherent and I/O coherent scenarios.

PCIe enables external connectivity in SoCs for high-performance servers. This article explains the PCIe architecture and how PCIe can be used to provide external connectivity in Arm-based SoCs.

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It's no surprise that security for IoT is everywhere at DAC this year! Read this blog post to see some of the top themes!

The modern SoC typically consists of billions of transistors and is normally designed with many modular IP blocks. Each of these blocks have been commercially licensed, developed or reused from previous…

In 2013 ARM announced the AMBA 5 CHI protocol to provide the performance and scale required for infrastructure applications. This blog outlines the 2017 updates to AMBA.

Gone are the days when you used to use manual navigation aids to move around the town. Opening the Global Positioning System (GPS) to public use enticed technology firms to provide automation in navigation…

Designing SoCs is tricky and the performance of your product depends highly on an array of complicated decisions. To guide our partners through the SoC design process, ARM recently announced system guidance…

Safety and security are interesting topics; they are closely related and complementary to one another, despite being distinct disciplines in the context of systems and SoC design.

A closer look at CMN-600 and the other Arm IP available, to complement the recent Cadence Design Systems CCIX launch.

Last week we ran two packed webinars titled “How to implement a secure IoT system on Armv8-M”. During the webinar we looked at how to protect an IoT system from security attacks.

Three reasons to read ARM's latest whitepaper on Enterprise Virtualization! The whitepaper explains the technical details of IO device virtualization and virtual interrupt management from both hardware…

The future of debug has arrived! Arm is introducing Arm CoreSight SoC-600, our next-generation debug and trace solution. This new technology offers debug and trace over functional interfaces such as USB…

ARM today announced its free system guidance to help you save time and reduce complexity, with key system configurations analysed for mobile and infrastructure PPA targets.

The protocol used by many SoC today is AXI, or Advanced eXtensible Interface, and is part of the Arm Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) specification.

Supply Monitoring on 28nm & FinFET - The Challenges PosedIn this, the fourth instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series I chat with Oliver King about voltage monitoring in modern SoCs and we…

This entry is extracted from an entry originally posted on Carbon Design Systems’ blog by Andy Meier in February of 2013.  The blog has been edited to use the updated product names after their purchase…