Designing heterogeneous systems including programmable hardware, multicoreprocessors, DSP, processors and more

Designers working with programmable hardware can choose from a wide selection of platforms including off-the-shelf, custom or application-specific, field-programmable, configurable and many other products and devices. The range of options and distinct application requirements is growing and designers have to understand and distinguish between the options available to them. In this talk, Chris draws upon his wide-ranging knowledge of the semiconductor industry, differing application markets ranging from consumer to defence and experience from Cambridge Consultants´ projects to offer some insight into the platform choices available; how they may be differentiated and how an investment in them might be protected given the level of engineering development and product life-cycle challenges that must be met. Further observations offered regarding market trends, choice of computation model, program memory system, development and verification tools and sourcing underlying intellectual property.