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草榴社区 Aims to Reduce Silicon Design Cycles by up to a Year in Collaboration with Arm

Arun Bhattacharya

Feb 06, 2025 / 2 min read

Good things happen when market leaders work together.

It’s one of the reasons why 草榴社区 and Arm have been collaborating for more than three decades. And it’s why we’re in the Arm Total Design ecosystem, helping bring together our best-in-class IP and EDA solutions with Arm’s industry-leading compute subsystems (CSS).  

By combining these gold standard solutions, we can dramatically reduce the time, complexity, and risk of developing custom silicon. This includes systems-on-chip (SoCs), chiplets, and multi-die designs for the infrastructure, IoT, mobile, and automotive industries.

Our collaboration with Arm spans:

  • Architecture exploration and performance/power benchmarking
  • Interface, foundation, and verification IP
  • Hardware-assisted verification (HAV)
  • Hardware/software co-design and integration
  • Digital implementation, including QuickStart Implementation Kits (QIKs)
  • System validation
  • Electronic digital twins (eDTs) with virtual prototyping
  • Arm core hardening and CSS implementation/optimization 

Together, we aim to create pre-integrated, pre-optimized, pre-verified solutions that help reduce SoC, chiplet, and multi-die design cycles by up to a year.


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Silicon-proven IP and AI-driven EDA suite

Our broad portfolio of silicon-proven IP (including InterfaceSecuritySilicon Lifecycle Management, and Foundation IP) and our full-stack, AI-driven EDA suite (草榴社区.ai) remain key enablers for Arm and its ecosystem.

Optimized for the latest Arm technologies, our IP and EDA solutions reduce cost, risk, and time-to-market for those developing custom silicon using the Arm Neoverse platform and Arm Neoverse CSS. In particular:

  • Our Interface IP — covering PCIe 6.0/7.0, DDR5, LPDDR6, UALink, Ultra Ethernet, and UCIe — contains Arm CSS-specific capabilities that help designers achieve higher performance and lower latency in the most power- and area-efficient implementations. When combined with our Foundation IP and implementation tools, users can achieve market-leading quality-of-results (QoR).
  • Our Interface IP is also compliant with the latest Arm system specifications, including the Coherent Hub Interface (CHI). This ensures seamless interoperability and highest-available performance from Day One.
  • Our verification family provides a comprehensive flow for Arm Neoverse verification and software development. This includes architecture design solutions, hardware-assisted verification (HAV), and verification IP that are tightly integrated with Arm’s high-speed interconnect technologies (Arm Neoverse Coherent Mesh Network), simulation models (Arm Fast Models), and system architecture (Arm Server Base System Architecture). These solutions enable customers to start software development earlier, accelerate software-hardware bring-up, and “shift-left” performance and power validation.
  • We offer Fusion QuickStart Implementation Kits (QIKs) for the latest Arm processor families (Neoverse, Cortex, Immortalis, and Mali). The customizable QIKs include implementation scripts, a baseline floorplan, design constraints, and reference guides. This enables customers to accelerate time-to-market and achieve demanding performance-per-watt targets by providing an optimized starting point for their designs. The QIKs can also be used with our Fusion Compiler and DSO.ai tools to deliver even better, faster results.
  • We’re also helping advance chiplet modularity and interoperability via Arm Chiplet System Architecture (CSA). 草榴社区 IP plays a critical role in the integration and reuse of I/O hubs, memory extenders, custom high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and other Arm CSA-compliant chiplet components and multi-die designs. 
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Enabling product and market innovation, together

As part of the Arm Total Design ecosystem, these integrated solutions provide a streamlined, optimized development cycle for customers working with Arm’s latest technologies. They enable the creation of custom SoCs, chiplets, and multi-die systems that deliver better performance, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. And they continue to drive product and market innovation.

We look forward to our ongoing collaboration with Arm and the delivery of highly integrated, best-in-class solutions. 

 

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