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Netronome reduces SoC power use with timing tricks

May 14, 2012

Cadence Design Systems claims that Netronome designers achieved a 29 percent reduction in power consumption using Cadence's latest Encounter 11.1 technology thereby providing performance advantage on its low-power "green" SoCs targeting the secure virtual cloud and data center markets.

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Startup claims 'Holy Grail' of SoC design

April 23, 2012

The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday (April 23), when Algotochip Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip (SoC) design from a C-code specification in just eight to 16 weeks.

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Design for power methodology

April 20, 2012

Power is a daunting challenge for modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs, from both the power consumption and power integrity perspectives.

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Mobile SoC graphics performance to soar past Xbox 360 by 2014

April 20, 2012

Nvidia is predicting that by 2014, mobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) GPUs will be more powerful than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console. In fact, mobile GPUs are expected to equal the graphics processing power of the 360 by next year.

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Core Logic selects Arteris FlexNoc as its backbone SoC

April 19, 2012

Core Logic found that its previous interconnect IP solution could not scale to meet their advancing needs. The complexity of their SoCs increased, along with back-end timing and routing congestion issues

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Cable set-top box SoC from Broadcom for TV digitization

April 19, 2012

Broadcom Corporation has announced an integrated single chip standard definition MPEG2 cable set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution "BCM7014". This platform is designed to digitize the cable TV by providing a system capable of rapid, wide-scale deployment.

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Kilopass NVM IP employed in SoC IC from SICMICRO

April 5, 2012

SICMICRO of China is using non-volatile memory IP from Kilopass called XPM (eXtra Permanent Memory) in its STB SoC ICs.

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