According to Arteris, FlexGen dramatically accelerates chip development while optimising performance efficiency, and addresses the rising demand for faster, more sustainable innovation across a broad set of applications.
With up to a 10x productivity boost, FlexGen dramatically cuts the number of design iterations, significantly reducing the time required to develop cutting-edge chips. FlexGen is also said to achieve up to a 30% reduction in wire length to lower power use, and up to a 10% reduction in latency that results in improved performance in SoC and chiplet designs.
FlexGen builds upon the silicon-proven FlexNoC 5 NoC IP technology and component library to automate the creation of high-performance network-on-chip (NoC) designs.
Supported by AI-driven automation, FlexGen can reduce manual adjustments by over 90%, enabling optimised NoC topologies in a matter of hours instead of days, according to Arteris. This will significantly accelerate development while maintaining the quality achieved through manual methods. These advancements are seen as being critical as the industry scales to meet the demands of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and cloud computing.
Dream Chip Technologies, a developer of automotive AI used for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), used the technology and saw a reduction in design iterations from weeks to a matter of days, enabling rapid experimentation and faster development.
“FlexGen’s automated NoC IP generation allowed us to create floorplan adaptive topologies with complex automotive traffic requirements within minutes, allowing for rapid experimentation to find design sweet spots, and to respond quickly to floorplan changes with almost push-button timing closure,” said Jens Benndorf, general manager of Dream Chip Technologies.
By streamlining chip design workflows and automating key processes, FlexGen will help companies to tackle the growing complexity of semiconductor design with fewer resources, paving the way for innovations in AI, 5G, and industrial IoT.
"FlexGen is the culmination of years of ground-breaking innovation to boost productivity while improving quality of results in order to overcome the exponential design challenges semiconductor companies and system houses face when creating today’s sophisticated electronics," said K. Charles Janac, president and CEO of Arteris. "With 5 to 20 NoCs in an average SoC or chiplet, our customers need smart NoC IP that reduces design time while delivering superior quality of results, enabling faster innovation cycles for tomorrow’s products, which FlexGen delivers.”
