HBM3: Next generation memory standard for solving high density and complex computational problems

In this era of technology revolution, there is a continuous progression in domains like AI applications, high end servers, and graphics. These applications require fast processing and high densities for storing the data, where High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) provides the most viable memory technology solution. Our previous memory blog HBM2 memory for graphics, networking and HPC explored this protocol with data transfer rate of 2GT/s with stacked architecture of 8-Hi stacks (8 die).The HBM2-extension (HBM2E) architecture provided further improvement on top of HBM2 with 3.2 GT/s transfer rate and 12-Hi stack architecture with individual die density upto 8Gb and overall density of 24GB.

Posted in Data Center, Debug, DesignWare, HBM, Uncategorized

Synopsys Verification Continuum ® on AWS – Join Us at DVCon US 2021

Verifications account for almost 70% of the time and resources consumed during chip development. Moving some or even all of logic simulation to cloud allows customers to free up valuable on-premises resources for other workloads. The deployment of Synopsys’ functional verification solutions on the AWS cloud platform enables accelerated development and verification of breakthrough connectivity technology and SoCs. AWS cloud enables users to take advantage of elastic infrastructure resources to address the increasing capacity requirements for semiconductor simulations.

Posted in Cloud, DVCON

Synopsys at DVCon US 2021 – Join us!

Join us March 1- 4 at DVCon US 2021, to learn how we help customers optimize chips for power, performance, and cost and cut months off their project schedules.

Posted in Cloud, Data Center, DVCON

The Fascinating Path of CXL 2.0 Device Discovery

In the CXL ecosystem the host software uses enumeration as the first step to discover CXL devices connected in the system.

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8K Ultra HD: A Giant Leap for High Definition Televisions

Lately television lovers across the world have an even better reason to be glued to the small screens, as 8K Ultra HD TVs have made their way to the market. The HDMI forums most recently released specification, v2.1, explains “higher video resolutions support a range of high resolutions and faster refresh rates including 8K60Hz and 4K120Hz for immersive viewing and smooth fast-action detail…” Most of us are familiar with the word “resolution”, but do we really know this term well?

Posted in Camera, Display, HDMI, Uncategorized

Automating Testbench Creation to Accelerate Network-on-Chip Verification

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a critical building block for many advanced and complex system-on-chips (SoCs). Having a complete verification solution to verify the functionality along with the performance (latency/bandwidth) is a must to ensure there are no functional bugs and no performance bottlenecks.

Posted in Arm, Data Center, Debug, Mobile SoC, Uncategorized

Industry’s First VIP for AMBA CXS Enables Early Adopter Success

Synopsys offers a broad set of verification solutions for next-generation AMBA® protocols, including AMBA CXS. Synopsys also has verification automation solutions for Arm-based protocols including VC AutoTestbench for testbench generation and VC AutoPerformance for performance verification.

Posted in AMBA, CXS, Uncategorized, UVM

Simplify Entertainment with HDMI 2.1 eARC

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) has been a part of our entertainment systems for nearly two decades now. Though the look of the cable has remained the same over the years, the input has undergone many improvements since its release in 2002.

Posted in Debug, Display, DisplayPort, Uncategorized, UVM

Deciphering the New TileLink Standard

Increasing complexities of processor architectures with limited overall performance scale-up have created a demand for a domain specific architecture to ensure extensive performance scaling. – this is when RISC-V began to gain momentum. RISC-V is gathering widespread attention throughout sectors like datacenter accelerators, mobile & wireless, IoT, etc. for its extensibility. Many industry leaders are beginning to adopt RISC-V for its open source availability that reduces time-to-market and cost effectiveness while at the same time scaling up the overall performance and leaving room for innovation and automation.

Posted in Mobile SoC, Processor Subsystems, Uncategorized