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Power Management: Throwing Down The Gauntlet
As featured in: The recent burst of articles challenging smart phone battery life has me asking the question, “Are we ready to turn the corner on power consumption?” About two years ago I was bemoaning...
View ArticleUnlocking the Full Potential of Soft IP
EDA vendors, IP suppliers and Foundries provide an eco-system for SoC designers to use in getting their new electronic products to market quicker and at a lower cost. An example of this eco-system are...
View ArticleThe Evolving Interconnect
“What people want to do right now is mostly run more applications,” said Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics. “They want to make these consumer electronics devices more computing devices, so the convergence...
View ArticleTaking Aim At Big Data
“With the Internet of Things we’re going to see arrays of sensors loosely connected to help people make intelligent decisions,” said Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics. “So we’re going to need SoC design...
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Sonics and ARM Enter Patent License Agreement and Broaden Technology Cooperation
Sonics licenses interconnect patent portfolio to ARM® and expands companies’ cooperation on advanced power management and interconnect technology Milpitas, Calif. – April 30, 2013 – Sonics Inc., the...
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Multicore: Is More Better?
As featured in: By Frank Ferro Two cores are better than one, right? It reminds me of those AT&T commercials where they ask the kids, “Who thinks two is better than one?” And of course the kids all...
View ArticleImagination Summit 2013
Visit Sonics at Imagination Summit 2013, July 23 at the Avenue Convention Center, Airport City, Israel. You can meet with Sonics experts to learn about the most advanced Network-on-Chip (NoC)...
View ArticleDAC IP Workshop: Are You Ready For Quality Control?
Sonics has various different interconnect and network-on-chip (NoC) technologies. Sveta showed us how to use the GUI to configure the whole subsystem interconnect. She could then use SpyGlass to make...
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Life After Smartphones
As featured in: By Frank Ferro Don’t let the title confuse you. Smartphones are not going away anytime soon. In fact this year’s smartphone shipments have exceeded feature phones for the first time,...
View ArticleTake Five with Warren, Ep. 11: Grant Pierce, Sonics, CEO
“..what we realized pretty quickly, was that if we were able to licensed this technology as a standard product, and get it into the hands of everyone in the industry, we could instead of being in a few...
View Article“NoC, NoC” – Are You Listening to nVidia’s Dally?
by Randysan Sonics has been working hard on putting power management support into their NoC tools and architecture. After all, the NoC is aware of what data is being sent where and when which means it...
View ArticleNew Silos Form In IC Industry
“The 2G cell phones were basically a microprocessor and a DSP,” said Drew Wingard, CTO of Sonics. The post New Silos Form In IC Industry appeared first on Sonics Inc..
View Article3D IC Supply Chain: Still Under Construction
“Customers designing SoCs find that doing their own interconnect is getting too cumbersome and complex due to the large number of IP blocks they need to integrate into their system,” said Frank Ferro,...
View ArticleChallenges of Low Power Network-on-Chip Designs
by Randysan of SemiWiki The SGN architecture is particularly well suited for low-power designs by allowing for virtually an unlimited number of power, clock and voltage domains. The design tools...
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DRAM Remains The Status Quo
As featured in: No one will argue that the “post-PC” era is here. Tablet shipments are expected to pass laptops by the end of this year, and desktops by the end of 2015. Add-in the nearly 1 billion...
View ArticleSecurity Needs in On-Chip Networks
by Randysan The IP should come with mechanisms to enable content protection, core hijacking prevention, and denial of service protection. I have found that all these features, and more, exist in the...
View ArticleManaging Memory With Embedded Software
Sonics developed what it calls interleave memory technology (IMT) in its interconnect fabric/on-chip network, which balances the load between the memory channels and basically tells the hardware...
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NoC Straight Talk
As featured in: Increased interest in on-chip network IP is without a doubt directly correlated to the increase in SoC complexity and performance over the past few years. Some SoC design managers even...
View ArticleWhat Does Sports and NoC Have in Common?
by Randysan In addition to Initiator Based QoS, Sonic’s has NoC IP that also supports Target based QoS. In this approach, the decisions on handling priorities are made closer to the target (or...
View ArticleMore Rigor, Please
By Ann Steffora Mutschler The superchip approach to building platforms is hardly new. “The easiest example to describe is probably the application processor business for phones where people were...
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