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Divide & Conquer: Dispersed global design teams need NoC fabric IPArteris Connected Blog - Kurt ShulerOct. 03, 2013 |
It’s no surprise that most corporate system-on-chip (SoC) design teams are dispersed throughout the world, with different functional teams often located in different countries and continents. For example, we have many customers whose SoC architecture is defined in the United States, but subsystems such as graphics and signal processing are designed elsewhere. Companies choose this "divide and conquer" approach in the hopes of reducing design costs without affecting time to market.
But are there hidden perils to the divide and conquer SoC design approach? And what can be done to avoid these problems?