Sondrel’s modules accelerate implementation of new ASIC designs
Sondrel has revealed that its recently launched family of Architecting the future IP platforms are very easy to modify to precisely match customers’ ASIC requirements. This is because of its innovative Scalable Architecture Framework (SAF) that they are all based on. This uses re-usable, modular IP blocks that each have a wrapper containing a standardised set of functions and interfaces. Each Architecting the future IP platform has been created by assembling the required blocks to meet the performance and functionality required for a particular application area.
Sondrel used SAF to create the first five members of the Architecting the future family of IP platforms that are each designed to have virtually everything needed for an ASIC solution for a particular application area.
The standardised modular approach means that, at the start of a new customer project, Sondrel selects the appropriate IP platform and then customises it by adding more computing blocks for improved performance or different functionality with the appropriate block from its library of blocks to create a bespoke solution. Third party or customer IP, once wrapped, is similarly added into the design. The overall result is that SAF enables Sondrel to dramatically reduce design time by having an effective way to rapidly assemble solutions for customers and save them design costs as well as enabling them to have a product in the market significantly faster.