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White Paper: Custom SoCs Compete with Discrete IC Boards

Eric Gowland
Eric Gowland
December 3, 2015

In this White Paper, commissioned by ARM, author and leading industry commentator John Blyler (jblyler), takes a look at the current economics of custom System-on-Chip development relative to discrete IC boards, and analyses just where the tipping point in favour of custom designs lies.

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"Custom System-on-Chip (SoC) semiconductors have now reached a cost point to compete directly with traditional discrete IC board products. Many original electronic manufacturing (OEM) companies of printed circuit boards are reconsidering a SoC implementation as a way to reduce the bill-of-material (BoM) costs, shrink the product size and power consumption, and add new features such as wireless connectivity and sensor processing. Further, moving to a custom SoC has several inherent advantages, such as design IP protection, supply chain end-of-life (EoL) security and mitigating the slowing of Moore’s law."

Whitepaper_CustomASICEconomics.pdf
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  • Eoin McCann
    Eoin McCann over 9 years ago

    Multi project wafer (MPW) make it even more compelling to build SoCs, it allows cheap prototyping, and even enables applications that require small quantities of products. http://info.sondrel.com/affordable-silicon-for-your-iot-ic-0

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  • Ravinder
    Ravinder over 9 years ago

    Dynamics around  ASIC   vs  discrete board explained in a very simple language . 

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