Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: Virage Logic | Subject: IPrima Mobile platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 01 July 2004
IP platform focuses on SoC power
consumption
One of the unrelenting challenges facing SoC designers today is power management, particularly in low-power, battery-operated microelectronics.
One of the unrelenting challenges facing SoC designers today is power management, particularly in low-power, battery-operated microelectronics that serve as the basis for any number of ubiquitous consumer electronics products such as cellphones, PDAs and handheld gaming platforms Ironically, the one element in SoCs that has not shrunk along with process geometries is static power
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Logic libraries cut silicon costs
Long known in the embedded memory market, Virage Logic is extending its role to the broader category of semiconductor IP platforms with its first foray into logic components.
Metal programmable cells join RapidChip platform
LSI Logic has licensed ASAP metal programmable cells from Virage Logic for use in its RapidChip silicon platform.
In fact, it has grown exponentially, in inverse proportion to the overall size of the SoC.
To help designers address this challenge, IPrima Mobile is an application-optimised semiconductor IP platform claimed to significantly minimise and effectively manage power dissipation without paying a performance penalty.
IPrima Mobile is the first offering in Virage Logic's IPrima family of application-optimised semiconductor IP platforms.
Further reading
TSMC lends library support to SoC design efforts
TSMC and Virage Logic have signed