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When Arteris sold key network-on-chip intellectual property and most of its human assets to Qualcomm earlier this year, it was big news. We suggested the bigger news after a restaffing effort would be a next-generation NoC release, and a new round of design wins.

Some developments were already in the pipeline. One notable development was the release of details of the Altera implementation of NoCs for partitioning in the Arria 10 SoC. For those that think Xilinx is light years ahead with their UltraScale SoC architecture, I’d encourage you to search their documentation for the term “firewall.” Bottom line: Altera and Xilinx parts are good at different things, and lumping them into the same bucket because they are “FPGAs” does both a major disservice. Altera turned to Arteris and FlexNoC to help them differentiate.

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