Deep-submicron systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) require a power-grid voltage drop of much less than 10% of VDD. Decoupling capacitors, or decaps, help achieve this goal by minimizing switching noise.

Instead of manually placing every switch, buffer, and timing pipeline stage, engineers can now use automation algorithms to ...

Download this article in PDF format. Today’s embedded systems require high external memory bandwidth to achieve fast boot time and application loading time with minimal cost. Historically, ...

For most system-on-chip (SoC) designs, the most critical task is not RTL coding or even creating the chip architecture. Today, SoCs are designed primarily by assembling various silicon intellectual ...

Just to get the ball rolling, let’s start by reminding ourselves that system-on-chip (SoC) devices are composed of functional units called intellectual property (IP) blocks or cores. A modern SoC can ...

In the race to achieve high design performance and stringent power requirements, the VLSI world is moving quickly down the scaling curve to process technologies that ...

Excluding the simplest offerings, almost every modern system-on-chip (SoC) device will implement its on-chip communications utilizing a network-on-chip (NoC). Some people question whether it is ...

In an era where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, the semiconductor industry serves as the backbone of innovation. From IoT devices to data centers, every piece of technology relies on ...