Arteris Connected Blog

The OMAP4470 TRM (also known as the OMAP4470 Multimedia Device Silicon Revision 1.0 Version E Technical Reference Manual) is available here by direct link:

Samsung’s announcement that it is investing a company-record $42B in 2012 for technology development came as a bit of a shock to many in the financial and technology press. The size of this investment dwarfs that of any other company I know of, and even exceeds the expected technology investments of entire nations, such as the combined investments of the Japanese semiconductor vendors.

Two new options for interchip connectivity are available today that enable sharing a DRAM memory between two chips for data and programs. These standards, called MIPI Low Latency Interface (MIPI LLI) and Chip-to-Chip (C2C), are primarily targeted at mobile phones, where a mobile phone’s modem usually requires its own discreet DRAM. With either C2C or MIPI LLI, the mobile phone modem can use the application processor’s DRAM though a low-latency, memory-mapped connection that requires no software drivers or runtime software.

“I wanted my kids to know me. I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”

This is how Steve Jobs answered his biographer when asked why he agreed to cooperate in the writing of his biography.

Texas Instruments has updated their public OMAP4460 Technical Reference Manual (TRM) to version I. Also, the OMAP4430 TRM is now at version R.

Gartner analyst Jim Tully’s assessment that network on chip (NoC) technology will be “mainstream” in two to five years is an acknowledgement of the technical and commercial success NoC interconnect IP has had in the consumer electronics system on chip (SoC) market over the last couple of years.

For all the work our industry does to implement sophisticated power management and conservation features in our chips and software, I was dismayed (and a little appalled) to read Saturday’s New York Times article, “Atop TV Sets, a Power Drain That Runs Nonstop.”

Industry Product Lifecycles Affect Revenue Sensitivity to TTM

This is the second article in a series about how to calculate revenue losses due to delivering a product late to market. In this article I’ll compare the product lifespan and development cycle times of various industries and describe how sensitive product revenues are to product introduction times in these industries.

TI has updated their OMAP4460 Technical Reference Manual (TRM) to version F. The OMAP4430 TRM is still at version R.

When I speak to semiconductor product managers, directors and VPs, one of the questions I often ask is, “How much does it cost you if your chip is one month late?”