Chip System Complexity is Changing the Chip Design Ecosystem

The complexity of the chip system has a multifaceted impact on the chip design ecosystem. Driven by applications, the complexity of the chip system increases, and the number of highly complex subsystems on the entire chip system increases, which also increases the number of embedded processors required on the chip. On the one hand, applications drive the increase in demand for embedded processors; on the other hand, if there are embedded processors with lower cost and more flexible design, it will also be able to further enable such an increase in complexity.

From this point of view, RISC-V can be said to meet the needs of increasing the complexity of chip design. processor requirements. RISC-V is an open source processor instruction set, anyone can freely use this instruction set, and further customize additional instruction sets to meet their own needs. At present, using RISC-V as an embedded processor/MCU that does not require high computing performance has become the choice of more and more chips. The main reason behind it is the cost and flexibility based on RISC-V processors. In the future, we expect RISC-V to be further widely used, and on the other hand, it will further enable the complex improvement of the chip system.

In addition to embedded processors, as the complexity of the chip system increases, another change to the design of the chip system is how to connect these systems together in an efficient and reliable way, so that they can communicate with each other and access memory. This requires the increasing use of NoC (network-on-chip). NoC will increasingly become the basic IP on the SoC system to ensure that the system-on-chip design can expand its complexity and design scale more efficiently.

Therefore, we believe that from the perspective of IP design, new embedded processors (RISC-V) and on-chip interconnects (NoC) will become important new points of view to drive and enable further increases in the complexity of chip systems.

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