ARM exec touts IP reuse at ISSCC

Nicolas Mokhoff, EE Times
(02/05/2008 11:35 AM EST)

SAN FRANCISCO — The chief technology officer of intellectual property behemoth ARM Ltd. tried to convince hardware circuit designers gathered here that they should take software IP more seriously as the chip industry matures.

ARM CTO Mike Muller claimed in a keynote address at the International Solid State Circuits Conference here that silicon scaling has stopped delivering performance improvements. Muller said this is a side effect of density scaling, "which is driving the industry towards deeper application understanding and domain-specific architectures."

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