The goal is to find the core best suited for a given design project. Luca Benini, University of Bologna, presented a paper he co-authored with Stanford University's Ting Zhand and Giovanni De Micheli at the DATE Conference held in Munich, Germany, earlier this month. Users can query the engine to find IP that loosely fits a given project's functionality requirements.
Users can search for criteria like power, throughput and area, among others.
As the functionality of the design becomes more clear to a design team, users can then do more precise queries. The two companies are jointly marketing the integrated SoC platform for low-power, portable audio applications. It includes DMA support for peripheral interfaces to buffer memory for reduced firmware requirements, and power management for low-power operation. All rights reserved.