ARM Processor Hardening by Open-Silicon

SoC Design Services or Consulting

Product Description

SoC designers need hardened ARM processors that are optimized for performance and/or power. In today’s IC design, these processors will need to target a specific foundry technology, and sometimes metal stack. They will also need right-sized caches. Finally, the device application will drive whether a purely performance hardening is in order, or a more balanced performance/power tradeoff would yield a better market solution.

Open-Silicon offers processor hardening both as a service and as part of a complete SoC development solution. In addition to proven methodology capability at today’s leading edge process nodes, Open-Silicon brings the experience from over a hundred processor hardenings. In addition, Open-Silicon offers the proprietary and patented CoreMAX and PowerMAX technologies for processor performance and/or power optimization. These technologies came from the 2007 acquisition of Zenasis Technologies, a leader in ARM processor optimization, and have been carried forward as part of Open-Silicon. These technologies offer an ARM-specific library augmentation flow for performance/power optimization. By adding 100-300 new cells to the standard cell library in a couple of Vts, the performance of these processors can be improved 6-10%. Also, Open-Silicon is an ARM POP (performance optimization pack) licensee and can use those additional cells to achieve a market-differentiating performance.

With some of the industry's broadest processor hardening experience, and these MAX technologies, Open-Silicon is one of the leaders in processor implementation for embedded SoC designs.

ARM Processor Hardening

Market Segment(s)

• Embedded
• Enterprise
• Home
• Mobile
• Mobile Computing

Target Platform(s)

• Android
• ITRON
• Java
• Linux
• Nucleus
• OpenGL ES
• OpenVG
• OSE
• Other OS
• Palm OS
• QNX
• Symbian
• ThreadX
• VRTX
• VxWorks
• Windows Embedded CE
• Windows Mobile

ARM Processor(s)

• ARM7EJ-S
• ARM7TDMI
• ARM7TDMI-S
• ARM926EJ-S
• ARM946E-S
• ARM966E-S
• ARM968E-S
• VFP9-S
• VFP10
• ARM1136J-S
• ARM1136JF-S
• ARM1156T2(F)-S
• ARM1176JZ(F)-S
• ARM11 MPCore
• Cortex-A15
• Cortex-A5
• Cortex-A53
• Cortex-A57
• Cortex-A8
• Cortex-A9
• Cortex-M0
• Cortex-M1
• Cortex-M3
• Cortex-M4
• Cortex-R4
• Cortex-R5
• Cortex-R7
• ARMv4
• ARMv5
• ARMv6
• ARMv7
• ARMv8
• Mali55
• Mali-200+GP2
• Mali-400
• Mali-T604

System IP

• Debug
• Interconnect Fabric
• Level 2 Cache Controller
• Memory Controller

Physical IP

• DDR I/O (DDRI/II)
• General Purpose I/O (Inline / Staggered)
• Register File Memory Compilers
• Specialty I/O (HSTL, SSTL)
• SRAM Memory Compilers
• Standard Cell Libraries

Security Software

• TrustZone™ Technology

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