SoC Design blog

"What escalator?""What elevator?""Can I give you a walking demo instead?"I've finally come to the point where I don't feel guilty for giving my feet a rest - and this is most likely true for all of those…

I didn't get a chance to participate in the ARM Community Step Challenge at Mobile World Congress, alas. ( ARM Step Challenge: “Who is the ‘hardest working’ at MWC?”) But I…

The University Programs of ARM® and Xilinx® recently collaborated to produce an ARM-Xilinx SoC Lab-in-a-Box One-day Workshop based on the freely accessible ARM Cortex®-M0 DesignStart™ Processor…

As the number of processors and I/O masters in an SoC continues to rise the need for an efficient and easy to design interconnect becomes critical. An interconnect must provide sufficient throughput and…

Previously, I explained how to create a minimal, single-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 system running Linux®. In this article I will update the hardware design to use a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and run SMP…

We (The specified item was not found.) have just completed our first major release of 2014. It includes significant new content and many bug fixes to all products. Today, I would like to highlight the…

Linux® has become a popular operating system in embedded products, and as a result is experiencing increased usage for system design and verification. This means that a new set of people, who are not traditional…

Another important milestone was reached recently for TSMC  and ARM when the teams taped out at the end of December 2013 (see block diagram) the first 64 bit ARMv8 processors in a big.LITTLE configuration…

       Photo modified by Greg Yeric from original by Eric Fischer. I was recently invited to add some thoughts on technology scaling over at Ed Sperling's excellent semien…

Now that CES is done for another year, it is worth remembering that the diversity of solutions on display and the proliferation of new device experiences at ever lower costs is due to semiconductor vendors…

Over the last five years, one of the concerning things about virtual prototyping has been the separation between speed and accuracy. The lack of any meaningful connections between models built for speed…

I created a short introduction to the QVN protocol used with the QVN-400 plugin to NIC-400 and with the DMC-400 dynamic memory controller. This is a non-confidential introductory-level document for those…

Below is a blog post which Varun Subramanian made to Carbon's blog today about using ARM Fast Models together with a Carbonized Mali-450MPIn the previous parts of this blog series, I discussed the…

Part 4 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…

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…