SEMIFIVE's SoC platform provides a rapid and cost-effective path to developing purpose-built custom silicon solutions. By leveraging silicon-proven IPs and optimized design methodologies, this platform aims to lower costs, reduce risks, and accelerate time-to-market. The platform is distinguished by its domain-specific architecture, which supports a pre-configured and verified IP pool, allowing for a swift hardware/software bring-up. This platform empowers companies to turn their ideas into silicon efficiently, minimizing development costs and engineering risks.
The SoC platform's benefits include significant cost savings with up to 50% lower non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs compared to the industry average. It also ensures a rapid turnaround time, up to 50% faster than typical timelines, due to its pre-verified design components and reuse capabilities. The platform's pre-established IP pools, which are selected, configured, implemented, and verified, simplify the engagement model, promising a comprehensive suite of services from architecture to manufacturing.
Technical highlights of the SoC platform include configurations for AI inference with a SiFive quad-core U74 RISC-V CPU, LPDDR4x memory interfaces, and PCIe Gen4 connectivity, optimized for applications like big data analytics and vision processing. The SoC platform also supports AIoT and HPC applications, featuring scalable configurations for various performance demands and integration flexibility for customer-specific IPs.
