Black Sesame, Blue Ocean, Tenstorrent use Ncore and FlexNoC in AI chips

Typically in a AI chip, there are traditional CPUs and a lot of accelerators and customised processing elements forming a neural network. These elements communicate with each other in real-time, where huge amount of data transferring between them. AI chip designers can save on-chip networking design effort by using some of the available Inter-chip networking IP. Ncore and FlexNoC from Arteris is one such Ips being used by some of the latest AI chips. Mobileye has used Ncore and FlexNoC to connect processing elements inside it. Ncore is designed to efficiently connect various components within a SoC, including the CPU, GPU, accelerators, memory subsystems, and I/O interfaces. FlexNoC is configurable and scalable network-on-chip providing flexible and efficient communication and interconnects IP blocks within an SoC, such as processors, memories, peripherals, and accelerators. In neural networks, FlexNoC can be used to interconnect different IP blocks involved in AI processing. Ncore and FlexNoC can be explored to use as interconnect Ips across nodes in a distributed system or a network of interconnected devices Black Sesame licensed Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP and the accompanying FlexNoC Resilience Package for use in its automotive advanced driver assistance systems. China-based leading artificial intelligence (AI) SoC start-up semiconductor Blue Ocean Smart...