Over the past decade, ARM has accelerated its effort to enable its technology to be leveraged by enterprise users. Today ARM servers are becoming increasingly common, not only with common open source Linux hypervisors (such as KVM and Xen) but also other…
Exploring the ARM CoreLink™ CCI-500 performance envelope – Part 2
Introduction
In Part 1 of this blog series (found here ) we introduced the ARM CoreLinkTM CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect and described some of the new configurable features which are available over and above what was available with the previous generation…
- over 5 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
CoreLink NIC-400: a great interconnect for wearables and entry-level smartphones
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 low enough latency for all masters in the system…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 4
By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence
This is Part 3 of a 4 part series. Links below
Part 4
Cadence Interconnect Workbench
We have seen how a systematic process can be applied to validating…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
Getting the Most Out of the ARM CoreLink NIC-400
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 we presented and also give an opportunity to download…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 3
By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence
This is Part 3 of a 4 part series. Links below
Part 3
Use-case Performance Analysis
In the previous two parts we introduced the challenges facing designers…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 2
By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence
This is Part 2 of a 4 part series. Links below
Part 2
Performance Characterization
Because of the complexity of assembling and configuring the multitude…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
Introduction to the QVN Protocol
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 seeking to understand how QVN works and what issues…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog