Reference designs to quickly develop complex SoC chips

UK-based chip design services company Sondrel is offering a family of VLSI reference designs to design semiconductor system on chips (SoCs) faster and at lower cost. The reference designs contain ready to use SOC IP architectures. Chip designers can fast track designing a new chip using these reference designs, where Sondrel suggests all that is needed by VLSI architects is to select the most suitable semiconductor foundry and process, 3rd party silicon IP and also integrate any of your own IPs to create a customized chip. Sondrel also suggests its supply chain manufacturing service has further reduced risk and time to market (TTM) as it has created a series of pre-packaged supply chains specifically tailored for each of its Architecting the Future platforms. www Ian Walsh, Sondrel’s VP ASIC Business Development, explained; “Customers need to know the overall budget and time-to-market as key decision points in deciding whether to green light a new chip project or not. The process of turning a chip design into final silicon has many variables such as chip size, which foundry and process node to use, what testing regime to adopt, how to package the device, etc. As our range of SoC architectures gives five starting points, we have been able to reduce all these variables into a small matrix for each. This means we have the relevant data at our fingertips with predefined and co...