New era of SoC design on horizon

PHOENIX, USA: Given the high volume of inquiries and positive feedback from the release of Semico's IP Subsystem report in November of 2010, Semico is revisiting the report, "IP Subsystems: The Next Market Paradigm".

At Semico we aim to keep our clients informed about the impending changes to the market landscape before those changes occur, as awareness of and preparation for emerging trends can mean the difference in success and failure or profit and loss.

There is a new era of SoC design on the horizon and this report provides the requisite detail, insights and forecasts necessary for appropriate preparedness regarding this upcoming IP Subsystem trend.

IP subsystems: Next IP market paradigm
As the semiconductor industry enters the second decade of the 21st Century, substantial changes to the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design methodology are taking shape. These changes reflect issues the industry has been discussing for the last five to six years that are adversely affecting the SoC design effort to an ever-greater degree:

* Rising design costs.
* Increasing design complexity.
* Shrinking market windows.
* Lengthening design cycle times.
* Rapidly changing market requirements.
* Escalating integration costs for semiconductor.

IP blocks
In a unique first look at this emerging market, Semico has drafted a new report entitled IP Subsystems: the Next IP Market Paradigm, SC106-10, which examines the evolutionary forces and integration pressures that have caused this market to form.

The report also examines how the implementation of IP Subsystems into the SoC design flow will change the way SoC designers conceptualize and craft their silicon solutions in the future.