Electronic Design

Network Processors Evolve To Meet Future Line Speeds

Continuous change in network speeds and services has forced network equipment designers and network-processor (NP) vendors to re-evaluate their designs. The quest is on for new and better ways to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Flipping Processor Design On Its Head

AI is changing processor design in fundamental ways, combining customized processing elements for specific AI workloads with more traditional processors for other tasks. But the tradeoffs are ...
Electronic Design

10-Gbps Network Processor Is Fully Programmable

Representing the fourth generation in the nP7000 family, the nP7510 is a 10-Gbps network processor (NPU) targeted at applications such as 10-Gbps Ethernet and OC-192 Packet over SONET (PoS) and ATM. A ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
EurekAlert!

AI points toward a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design

Potential framework for fully automated processor chip design, including three core components: a) A domain-specific LLM to comprehend the specification and generate a primary design; b) An automated ...