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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: LiquidLogic
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 June 2001
Core embeds reconfigurable logic into
SoCs
LSI Logic has announced the immediate availability of the LiquidLogic core, an embedded programmable logic technology that can be used in both ASIC and ASSP SoC designs.
LSI Logic has announced the immediate availability of the LiquidLogic core, an embedded programmable logic technology that can be used in both ASIC and ASSP SoC designs This capability provides designers the best of both ASIC and programmable technologies: the flexibility and reconfigurability of programmable logic, and the low cost, low power, high density and high performance of ASICs and ASSPs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By successfully incorporating reconfigurable logic on an SoC platform, new types of products become feasible", said Ronnie Vasishta, vice president of Technology Marketing at LSI Logic.
"Our extensive experience with integrating intellectual property into SoC designs was key in this endeavour.
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This expertise allowed LSI Logic to develop a fully reconfigurable technology for SoC, which includes a logic core, dedicated point tools and a comprehensive design methodology".
Available now as an addition to LSI Logic's CoreWare library of intellectual property, the LiquidLogic core is being presented this week at the Embedded Processor Forum as a key component of a complex chip being developed by LSI Logic and a major communications system company.
The ASIC is a single-chip implementation of a DSP-based subsystem for 3G wireless basestations.
The chip uses LSI Logic's ZSP digital signal processor core, with the LiquidLogic core functioning as a slave coprocessor to the ZSP.
At the heart of the LiquidLogic core is the programmable logic core (PLC) technology licensed from Adaptive Silicon (ASI), an intellectual property developer located in Los Gatos, California.
The core and its associated design tools are fully integrated into LSI Logic's FlexStream design system.
The integration methodology also includes a unique two-stage timing closure flow that permits reconfiguration of the LiquidLogic core throughout the entire design process.
Reconfiguration is possible even when the final chip is installed in customer systems.
The most significant advantage of the LiquidLogic core is its inherent flexibility.
By partitioning a SoC design into fixed and reconfigurable portions, various control, processing or interface blocks can be transferred from a hardware implementation into the software domain.
This provides tremendous opportunity to system designers and overcomes the issues associated with having to have unique designs for minor functional variants.
An SoC with a LiquidLogic core can also receive upgrades that enhance the entire system's quality, reliability and functionality.
"Leading customers in the communications, consumer, storage and computing markets have expressed keen interest in this breakthrough technology, with communications leading the charge", said Pete Gasperini, Product Marketing Manager in LSI Logic's Technology Marketing Division.
"Our customers are already outstripping our expectations and quickly evolving new uses for the LiquidLogic core.
The innovations made possible by incorporating reconfigurable logic within ASICs are just beginning to emerge".
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