Author Introduction Dr. Liu, Ph.D. from University of Electronic Science and Technology, an expert in microarchitecture. 1. Background The clock circuit is the most basic circuit in the chip. The performance of the clock circuit is related to whether all the modules in the SoC can achieve the expected goals, such as the main frequency … Read more
Author: Majeed Ahmad Original Content from EET Electronic Engineering Magazine Recently, a new job title has been emerging in the semiconductor industry, known as “System Architect.” European IC design service consultancy Sondrel admits that there is an increasing need for system architects to coordinate every aspect of SoC design projects, including ensuring that SoC projects … Read more
2021: Wuxi Exhibition May 20-22 October 26-28 Nanjing Exhibition Exhibition Booking Hotline: 13013601526 (Mobile + WeChat) As a major core black technology launched by Luyuan this year, the Luyuan SOC intelligent endurance system has attracted high attention from both the industry and consumers, and many dealers and consumers are curious about the SOC dashboard. Today, … Read more
From June 5 to 7, 2023, the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit was held in the United States. As the most important cybersecurity event hosted by Gartner, this conference featured 71 analysts from Gartner taking the stage and 240 companies exhibiting. Key analysts in the field of Gartner SIEM and SOC were present to … Read more
After more than 50 years of absolute dominance, the CPU is finally facing new challenges, with the challenger being the SoC. In the past decades, you could walk into any computer store and choose a brand new computer based on CPU performance. Now, whether you look at smartphones, tablets, or laptops, they are all starting … Read more
01 Typical Classification of Chips Chips can typically be classified into four levels based on application scenarios: consumer grade, industrial grade, automotive grade, and military grade, with requirements in the order of military > automotive > industrial > consumer. Mobile chips belong to the consumer grade, while automotive chips belong to the automotive grade. The … Read more
You’ve Come This Far Don’t You Want to Know More? Recently, I’ve seen many people in the industry asking how to verify CPUs and what SOC verification involves. Today, I will briefly introduce IP, FPGA, SOC, and CPU verification. A typical chip team is composed of several departments: the Architecture department, IP designer department, IP … Read more
The previous blog discussed SoC design, but I felt it wasn’t thorough enough. This time I’m prepared to elaborate on SoC design and clarify several core issues. To explain SoC clearly, we need a good “textbook” or reference. Unfortunately, there isn’t a textbook that explains SoC comprehensively. I’ve read papers for many years and have … Read more
Introduction to the Basic Simulation Environment of SoC I have written one on the forum. http://bbs.eetop.cn/thread-442797-1-1.html “How to Build the Basic Testbench for SoC Projects (My Process)”. Here, I will mention the important and changed parts. Assuming this SoC has a CPU system, memory controller, bus topology, PAD, Clock reset, and some logic functional modules. … Read more
01 Concept of Automotive Semiconductors What Are Automotive Chips The concept of automotive semiconductors is broad, playing an important role in various fields such as automotive electrification, intelligence, connectivity, and sharing. They are categorized by function into automotive chips, power devices, sensors, etc. Among them, chips, also known as integrated circuits, have a very high … Read more