Arm today announced the launch of “Arm® Total Design” ecosystem, aimed at smoothly delivering custom system-on-chip (SoC) based on Neoverse™ Compute Subsystem (CSS).
Arm Total Design brings together leading companies in the industry, including application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design firms, IP suppliers, EDA tool providers, foundries, and firmware developers, to accelerate and simplify the development of systems based on Neoverse CSS. Partners in the Arm Total Design ecosystem will have priority access to Neoverse CSS, enabling innovation and faster time-to-market while reducing the cost and complexity of creating custom chips.
Mohamed Awad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Arm’s Infrastructure Division, stated: From artificial intelligence (AI) to 5G, to cloud data centers and edge, technology leaders in building next-generation computing infrastructure are turning to custom chips for the dedicated processing power required for scalability. We are addressing this trend by launching Arm Neoverse CSS, which offers a faster and lower-risk approach to making custom chips accessible in the infrastructure space. Today, we take another step forward with Arm Total Design, uniting a broader semiconductor industry around innovation based on Arm’s foundational compute subsystems. The efforts of this ecosystem in accelerating time-to-market and reducing the cost of creating high-performance, high-efficiency custom chips are unmatched by any other ecosystem.
The Arm Ecosystem Supports Every Stage of Chip Development
Through Arm Total Design, Arm has introduced key expertise from the ecosystem at every stage of chip development, allowing dedicated solutions based on Arm Neoverse to broadly cover various infrastructure fields such as AI, cloud, networking, and edge. The services currently offered by the Arm Total Design ecosystem include:
Pre-integrated and verified IP and EDA tools from partners such as Cadence, Rambus, and Synopsys, which help accelerate chip design and integration of features like memory, security, and peripherals;
Design services from partners such as ADTechnology, Alphawave Semi, Broadcom, Capgemini, Chipone, Socionext, and Sondrel, who provide expertise on Neoverse CSS and other Arm IP and methodologies to support the ecosystem;
Technologies from foundry partners such as Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and TSMC, specifically optimized for leading process nodes and advanced packaging technologies;
Commercial software and firmware support for Neoverse CSS from infrastructure firmware providers like AMI.
By collaborating with a founding team gathered from industry-leading companies, the entire industry will achieve rapid innovation based on Neoverse CSS, leveraging the vast infrastructure software ecosystem built by Arm and its partners over the past two decades.
The launch of Arm Total Design means that ASIC design firms can quickly kick off design projects and make their design solutions available to the required customers; IP suppliers can pre-integrate, pre-verify, and pre-optimize advanced IP for Neoverse CSS; EDA partners can seamlessly support cutting-edge tools and processes to simplify SoC design; commercial firmware solutions can begin development even before chip tape-out; meanwhile, designs for Neoverse CSS will be specifically optimized to leverage the advantages of leading process nodes.
Collaborating to Write a New Chapter in Computing Infrastructure
Neoverse CSS not only makes custom chips more accessible but is also continuously evolving to support emerging chiplet technology. By collaborating with members of the Arm Total Design ecosystem and the broader ecosystem on AMBA CHI C2C, UCIe, and other initiatives, Arm is driving industry consensus on basic interfaces and system architectures to enable innovative developments around multi-chiplet SoC design. A typical example is the multi-core CPU chiplet from Socionext, which utilizes Neoverse CSS technology and is designed based on TSMC’s 2nm process node, providing solutions for server CPUs, data center AI edge servers, and 5/6G infrastructure.
From software and hardware partners to foundries and EDA technology pioneers, the Arm Total Design ecosystem brings together expertise from the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry, accelerating the development speed of custom chips optimized for workloads. Arm will collaborate with all parties to ensure that high-performance, high-efficiency solutions are widely available to meet the enormous demands driven by AI in the future.
About the Green Computing Industry Alliance
Since its establishment in 2016, the Green Computing Industry Alliance aims to collaboratively build a green, open, autonomous, and shared ecosystem, committed to promoting the development of the green computing industry and creating a platform for industry exchange and cooperation to enhance enterprises in areas such as PC, servers, storage, operating systems, databases, etc., promoting win-win cooperation in the computing field. It has now become a global alliance with the most complete Arm infrastructure server chip partners, including Kunpeng, Feiteng, Ampere, Marvell, etc.
