Thermal Issues Associated with Modern SoCs - How Hot is Hot?

In this, the third instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series Moortec CTO, Oliver King talks about the thermal issues associated with modern SoCs and ponders the question How Hot is…

We at Critical Link have worked on some pretty complex applications for nearly 20 years, and so we’re exposed in real time to trends in the embedded systems market. Our work creating mitysom system-on-modules, custom baseboards, and complete ground…

Hi everyone,

At VIA Embedded we had a pretty good year for our ARM projects, and thought I share with you our highlights for 2015.

New Hardware

This year we…

New data shows that the break-even, return on investment (RoI) point continues to fall as custom SoCs compete directly with traditional discrete IC board designs.

By jblyler, Editorial Director, JB Systems

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The launch of Cadence's new Innovus Implementation System heralds “a new era” in physical implementation technology, breaking longstanding electronic system-design bottlenecks, according to Rahul Deokar, product management…

ARM University Program (AUP) and Xilinx University Program (XUP), together, organized a one-day workshop (ODW) on System-on-Chip (SoC) Design as part of their Faculty Development Program (FDP) initiatives in India on December 16, 2014. The workshop was…

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 on TSMC’s leading edge manufacturing process…

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 functional, eventually they will likely end up in…

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