On-Chip Interconnect: Demanding Challenges for Complex SoCs

By now, we've all gotten pretty used to these amazingly converged consumer devices: always-connected, media-rich and computing-capable platforms focused on the capture and delivery of massive amounts of content – all at seemingly impossibly low prices.  At the heart of consumer electronics today are System on a Chip (SoC) semiconductors that integrate heterogeneous processing, many disparate memories and mind boggling flavors of I/O to enable or deliver the applications and features of the device.  In this talk, I'll discuss the integration challenges facing the manager of a $100,000,000 development program that hopes to sell SoC's for about $10, and describe technologies being applied to manage the performance, feature, cost and power requirements of future consumer SoCs.

Speaker: Drew Wingard, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer, Sonics, Inc.

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