The High-Speed Virtual Highway

By _Sonics, The Official Blog

September 23, 2011

By now it’s safe to say that complex, high-speed design is no longer a riddle….at least in theory.

We all know the end game. In its most fundamental form, isn’t it really a designer’s negotiation and compromise with the end user that comes down to action and reaction? We know users demand more and more applications to run simultaneously on their smart devices. We know that the underlying SoC in every device must sufficiently accommodate multiple data streams for each unique application. This is driving key architectural decisions for multi-core, multi-processor SoCs. Given that, how do we limit the amount of ‘compromise’ by the designer and give the customer more of that they want?