To secure its role in the system-on-a-chip arena, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has rolled out a series of standardized tools to help customers select the right design blocks. Unveiled ...

Design IP is a key contributor to innovation in the semiconductor industry today. As the complexity and scale of silicon designs increase, so does design and verification time. Design IP enables ...

SNPS' Design IP business faces near-term pressure, but strong AI-driven design wins and rising demand signal a potential rebound in fiscal 2026.

As today’s SoC designs grow more complex and time-to-market (TTM) pressures rise, designers are looking for techniques to build and update designs easily. Key elements for addressing these SoC ...

In a previous article, Getting started in structured assembly in complex SoC designs, an unexceptional system-on-chip (SoC) design was shown to contain hundreds of intellectual property (IP) blocks.

It seems like there’s an almost unlimited array of microcontrollers—from low-cost 8-bit varieties to high-performance 32/64 multicore systems. While some systems require little thought beyond cost or ...