NetSpeed Systems Inc.
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| Industry | Consumer electronics/devices |
| Founded 📆 | 2011 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | San Jose, California, United States |
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Key people | Sundari Mitra, CEO Sailesh Kumar, CTO |
| Products 📟 | Network-on-Chip IPs |
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Number of employees | 11-50.[1] |
| 🌐 Website | NetSpeed Systems Inc. |
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NetSpeed Systems is a technology company, that develops on-chip network (NoC) IPs and tools for easier integration of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and System-on-Chip (SoC) in systems ranging from mobiles to high performance computing architectures. Besides its flagship synthesis tool, NoCStudio, NetSpeed systems provides several NoC products like Orion, Gemini, etc. to offer features like cache coherency, QoS, reliability in on-chip networks. The company claims to hold more than 70 patents based on its interconnect technologies.
NetSpeed Systems Inc. is established in 2011 and is headquartered at San Jose, California. Sundari Mitra is the current CEO and also co-founder of the company.
NetSpeed Systems has featured in the list of 60 emerging companies to watch by EE Times in the years 2016[2] and 2017[3]. In 2015, NetSpeed Systems has been named as the semiconductor company of the year by Silicon India[4]. In 2016, it has raised $10 million through Series C funding by Intel capital to enhance SoC architecture design through its products.[5]
History[edit]
NetSpeed Systems Inc. was founded by Sundari Mitra (previously CEO of Prism Circuits) and Sailesh Kumar (previously of Cisco Systems) in 2011 to address challenges faced by architects and designers of SoCs. NetSpeed, through its tools, aims to provide an end-to-end solution from specification definition to architecture design to final tape-out for easier and efficient integration of SoC platforms[4][6]. Since its inception, NetSpeed has raised funds totaling up to $13.2 million from different investors including Intel Capital, SK Hynix and Walden Riverwood Ventures[5][1][7][8].
NetSpeed Systems has launched its first NoC product, Orion in 2013 at HotChips conference[9]. Orion takes system level requirements like number of components, performance specifications, etc. as input and explores different architectural implementations to provide optimal topology and NoC specifications. It claims to reduce the wire count by 50% and power consumption by 60% over traditional SoC interconnects like AMBA/AXI[9][10][11]. Subsequently, they have launched other NoC solutions like Gemini, Pegasus to provide additional features like cache coherency, last level cache optimizations, etc. Through Orion AI, they have started leveraging machine learning algorithms to design SoC architectures[12].
Through licensing its NoC solutions and products, NetSpeed Systems has acquired customers across a wide range of semiconductor and electronic designers including ARM, Altera, Synposys, Cadence, Horizon Robotics and Imagination Technologies[13][14][15][16][17][18].
Products[edit]
NetSpeed Systems has developed several technologies and products, NoCStudio, Orion, Gemini, etc. for implementing on-chip networks and easier integration of different in a SoC.
NoCStudio[edit]
NoCStudio is NetSpeed Systems' Network-on-Chip synthesis platform, that takes system level details and performance requirements as input and provides as output an optimized interconnect solution. Using an algorithmic approach, NoCStudio is capable of evaluating different on-chip network configurations and create new hybrid network architectures from existing ones to optimize performance and power of the network for any given SoC design and meet design specifications like QoS, timing requirements, reliability, etc. It is capable of automatically configuring NetSpeed's own network IPs Orion and Gemini for integrating modules from different vendors in a SoC. In addition to automatic evaluation of optimal interconnect solution, designers can specify and override different aspects of the tool to evaluate trade-offs between different network implementations[19][20][21]. Recently, NetSpeed Systems has released SoCBuilder to work alongside NoCStudio for faster development of SoC systems, that integrate IPs from variety of vendors[6][22].
Orion[edit]
Orion is the first NoC IP launched by NetSpeed Systems[9] and is a scalable interconnect solution designed to enabled easy and efficient integration of SoCs. It takes system level details as input and uses machine learning algorithms to determine optimal topology, channel, buffers for performance and power efficiency through architectural exploration. It is designed to be IP agnostic (capable of integrating IPs of different protocols), floorplan aware (ensure timing closure considering physical constraints) and deadlock free[9][10]. Orion IP has found its way into several SoCs developed by companies like DENSO[23], Sondrel[24] and Sunplus Technology[25]
Orion AI extends the capabilities of Orion to include features like broadcast and multicast support to build SoCs for AI applications[26][27]. SoCs designed for AI applications tend to include a large number of cores, high levels of parallelism and peer-to-peer traffic, requiring special architectures. Orion AI uses NetSpeed Systems' Turing learning engine[28] to optimize Soc architecture through supervised learning[29]. Companies like Horizon Robotics[16][30], Cambricon[31] and Esperanto Technologies[32] have licensed Orion AI IP to power their AI chips.
Gemini[edit]
Gemini is the cache coherent NoC IP developed by NetSpeed Systems for SoCs with clusters of CPUs, GPUs or DSP processors[33][34][35]. It includes all the capabilities of Orion, along with cache and I/O coherency within the same NoC. Gemini 2.0 extends support for cache coherency between multiple processing clusters[36] and Gemini 3.0 further extends the cache coherent NoC IP to heterogeneous multi-core SoCs[37][38]. Gemini IP can support up to 64 processing clusters of CPUs, GPUs and other compute cores within the chip and 200 I/O coherence components.
Pegasus is an add-on to Gemini for optimizing Last Level Cache (LLC) in SoCs[39]. It allows configuration of LLC capacity, ports and associativity to provide low latency and low power cache hierarchy. Gemini IP is used in SoC developed by companies like Altera[13], MIPS[40]. and Magillem[41]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NetSpeed Systems | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed systems featured in EE TIMES' Silicon 60: Emerging Companies to Watch". Design And Reuse. September 26, 2016.
- ↑ Clarke, Peter (December 11, 2017). "EE Times Silicon 60: Startups to Watch". EETimes.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "NetSpeed: An Innovative Way of Designing Systems-on-Chips". siliconindia. November 24, 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shulman, Pauline (October 24, 2016). "NetSpeed Raises $10M in Series C Funding Led by Intel Capital to Bring Machine Learning to SoC Design and Architecture".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Simon, Tom (August 20, 2018). "SemiWiki.com - Webinar: Netspeed is about to change the way SOCs are designed". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ Takahashi, Dean (4 November 2014). "NetSpeed Systems raises funding to make networking chips easier to design". VentureBeat.
- ↑ "Intel, SK Hynix invest in NetSpeed Systems". www.lightwaveonline.com. October 25, 2016.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Kumar, Sailesh. "NetSpeed Orion: A New Approach to Design On-Chip Interconnects" (PDF). Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Halfhill, Tom R. "Automating Front-End SoC Design With NetSpeedʼs On-Chip Network IP" (PDF). The Linley Group. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ↑ Esteve, Eric. "SemiWiki.com - Why Modern SoC need cache-coherent NoC?". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ Simon, Tom. "SemiWiki.com - Leveraging AI to help build AI SOCs". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Altera licenses NetSpeed's Gemini - Configurable Cache Coherent Network-on-Chip IP". Design And Reuse. May 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Imagination announces new fabric collaboration with NetSpeed". Design And Reuse. January 6, 2016.
- ↑ Hudson, Annie (26 October 2017). "UltraSoC and Netspeed partner to accelerate development time for complex SoCs • UltraSoC". UltraSoC.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Horizon Robotics Licenses NetSpeed Interconnect IP for AI SoCs". EDACafe. January 30, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Collaborates with Cadence to Optimize IP for Advanced Automotive SoC Designs". Design And Reuse (February 7, 2018).
- ↑ "NetSpeed and Synopsys Collaborate to Enable Early Architectural Exploration of Advanced ADAS and Datacenter SoCs - EconoTimes". EconoTimes. February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Systems Aims to Revolutionize the Design of SoCs with On-Chip Network Solution". Design And Reuse. May 29, 2014.
- ↑ Heins, Mitch. "SemiWiki.com - NetSpeed Leverages Machine Learning for Automotive IC End-to-End QoS Solutions". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ Heins, Mitch. "SemiWiki.com - NetSpeed Bridges the Gap Between Architecture and Implementation". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ "NetSpeed launches SoCBuilder–AI-powered design and integration platform to accelerate SoC designs". GlobeNewswire News Room. June 25, 2018.
- ↑ "DENSO Licenses NetSpeed IP for use in Advanced Automotive Platform SoCs". Design And Reuse. September 27, 2017.
- ↑ "Sondrel and NetSpeed Team Up to Deliver Faster SoC Solutions". www.sondrel.com. May 1, 2018.
- ↑ "Sunplus Technology Licenses Netspeed Orion IP to Accelerate Design of Automotive SoCs". Design And Reuse. April 5, 2017.
- ↑ "NetSpeed unveils Orion AI – Delivering extreme performance and ultimate efficiency for next-gen AI SoCs". GlobeNewswire News Room. June 21, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Orion AI". www.design-reuse-embedded.com.
- ↑ "NetSpeed's Turing Brings Machine Learning to SoC Design". Design And Reuse. October 5, 2017.
- ↑ Simon, Tom. "SemiWiki.com - Leveraging AI to help build AI SOCs". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ Heins, Mitch (February 5, 2018). "SemiWiki.com - AI-Leader Horizon Robotics Selects NetSpeed AI-based NoC IP For Next Generation Designs". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ "Cambricon Licenses NetSpeed Fabric IP for Its Next-Gen Artificial Intelligence Products". Design And Reuse. June 12, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed and Esperanto Partner to Power SoCs for Artificial Intelligence". GlobeNewswire News Room. May 7, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Systems to Bring its Next-Generation Cache Coherency to Enterprise Market with Extended ARM License". Design And Reuse. December 3, 2014.
- ↑ Esteve, Eric (August 3, 2015). "SemiWiki.com - Why Modern SoC need cache-coherent NoC?". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Introduces the industry's first fully configurable cache-coherent network-on-chip". Design And Reuse. October 6, 2015.
- ↑ Esteve, Eric (November 4, 2015). "SemiWiki.com - Why Gemini 2.0 is tailored for tomorrow's SoC designs?". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ Dingee, Don (September 28, 2016). "SemiWiki.com - It's a heterogeneous world and cache rules it now". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ "NetSpeed Releases Gemini 3.0 Cache-Coherent NoC IP to Supercharge Heterogeneous SoC Designs". September 29, 2016.
- ↑ Heins, Mitch (July 17, 2017). "SemiWiki.com - NetSpeed's Pegasus Last-Level Cache IP Improves SoC Performance and Reduces Latency". www.semiwiki.com.
- ↑ "MIPS and NetSpeed Partner to Deliver Solutions for AI and ML SoCs". February 14, 2018.
- ↑ "NetSpeed and Magillem partner to enable seamless IP integration of cache coherent NoC IP - Blog Magillem". Blog Magillem (in français). 1 June 2016.
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