What you should ask for instead of just PPA
SoC designers would really like to be able to compare PPA numbers of digital IP. However, as explained in our previous article, this is mostly impossible as available numbers usually do not apply to your use case. It is easy to be misled by PPA. So now, how do you select the best digital IP? […]
Why you should stop asking for PPA
As a topic that is subject to intense discussions, PPA (Power, Performance & Area) is certainly something that everyone in the semiconductor industry is focusing on. Who wouldn’t want a smaller and cheaper circuit that would consume less power and be much more capable than the previous generation? But you should stop asking for PPA. Or at […]
Processor PPA and instruction memory
The area of any part of a design contributes both to the silicon cost and to the power consumption, but a simplistic following of the “A” in a processor IP vendor’s PPA numbers can be misleading. What do you need to know?