During the 2018 TSMC Technology Symposium USA event, Arm’s Physical Design Group introduced its development plans for the Artisan physical IP portfolio on TSMC’s 22nm ultra-low power (ULP) and ultra-low leakage (ULL) process platforms. With an aggressive…
PC meets Arm: Integrating PCIExpress into the Arm Server Architecture
Earlier this month you may have noticed some press coverage regarding a collaboration between Xilinx, Arm, Cadence and TSMC to deliver 7nm test chip.
There are some significant challenges assembling server SoCs for the infrastructure market with the latest…
- over 2 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
ARM’s 64-bit big.LITTLE at 2.5GHz+? Yes, please with TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus!
The annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) was held last month, and what a show it was! If you recall, back in February, I talked about TSMC and ARM’s first tape-out with the ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors. At DAC, we presented…
- over 5 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
First tape-out with TSMC’s 16nm FinFET and ARM’s 64-bit big.LITTLE Processors
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…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog
FinFET production and the ARM Ecosystem: TSMC readies 16nm FinFET ramp and tips 10nm FinFET plans
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 being able to leverage the enormous investments…
- over 6 years ago
- System
- SoC Design blog