Highlights:
- Computing industry leaders collaborate
in delivery of the industry’s first development platform for 7nm
Arm Neoverse N1 SoCs and CCIX interconnect architecture
- Platform includes a 2.6-3GHz Neoverse
N1 SoC implemented and verified using a full Cadence tool flow in
TSMC 7nm FinFET process technology and connectivity to Xilinx FPGAs
via CCIX
Arm, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and Xilinx,
Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the delivery of a new
development platform, silicon-proven on TSMC’s (TWSE: 2330, NYSE:
TSM) 7nm FinFET process technology, for next-generation
cloud-to-edge infrastructure based on the new Arm® Neoverse™ N1
platform. The Neoverse N1 System Development Platform (SDP) is also
the industry’s first 7nm infrastructure development platform
enabling asymmetrical compute acceleration via the CCIX
interconnect architecture and is available to hardware and software
developers for hardware prototyping, software development, system
validation, and performance profiling/tuning.
The SDP includes a Neoverse N1-based SoC with an operating
frequency of up to 3GHz, full-sized caches and generous amounts of
memory bandwidth with the latest optimized system IP. The
robustness of the SDP is ideal for development, debug, performance
optimization and workload analysis on a wide range of applications
including those for machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence
(AI) and data analytics.
The Neoverse N1 SDP was developed jointly by Arm, Cadence and
Xilinx on TSMC’s process technology, and includes Cadence IP for
CCIX, PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen 4 and DDR4 PHY IP. The SDP was
implemented and verified using a full Cadence tool flow in TSMC’s
7nm FinFET process technology, the industry’s first and leading 7nm
process technology in volume production, and provides connectivity
to Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs over the CCIX chip-to-chip
coherent interconnect protocol via the Xilinx Alveo U280 CCIX
accelerator card. For customers with intense compute workloads,
CCIX offers a significant accelerator usability improvement as well
as improved data center performance/efficiency, lowering the
barrier to entry into existing server infrastructure systems and
improving the total cost of ownership (TCO) of acceleration
systems.
Availability
The Neoverse N1 SDP will be available in limited quantities in
Q2 2019 with wider availability in subsequent quarters. The
software stack can be accessed through Linaro and GitHub
open-source repositories, providing developers with an
out-of-the-box Linux software experience. The Xilinx Alveo U280
accelerator card, which features a high-performance FPGA with
integrated high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and a CCIX interface, is
available now and can be purchased directly from Xilinx.
Additionally, the full Cadence SoC implementation and verification
flows, CCIX, PCIe Gen 4 and DDR4 IP, and the Neoverse N1 Rapid
Adoption Kit (RAK) are available now, so customers can begin
designing Neoverse N1-based SoCs on TSMC’s 7nm silicon immediately.
For more information on the Neoverse N1 SDP, please visit
https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/neoverse/neoverse-n1.
Partner Quotes
“The new Neoverse platforms deliver the performance and
efficiency required to enable the cloud-to-edge infrastructure for
a world with a trillion connected devices. Our ongoing SDP
collaboration with Cadence, TSMC, and Xilinx truly enables
developers with the system development tools necessary to innovate
and deliver optimized Neoverse-based designs.”-Drew Henry,
senior vice president and general manager, Infrastructure Line of
Business, Arm
“Through our collaboration with Arm, TSMC and Xilinx, we are
jointly working to advance next-generation cloud-to-edge
infrastructure. By contributing our IP and EDA tools and flows to
the development of the Neoverse N1 SDP, we’re enabling customers to
use the full Cadence implementation and verification flows,
infrastructure IP, and rapid adoption kit to develop their own
devices today for machine learning, 5G, analytics and other
evolving application areas that enable them to excel in their
respective markets.”-Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president,
Cadence
“This collaborative effort combines Arm, Cadence and Xilinx’s
leading products, IP and tools with TSMC's 7nm FinFET process
technology and foundry services, enabling our customers to achieve
faster and successful application development in areas including
machine learning/AI, 5G and analytics, and creating greater value
to the markets that will be fundamentally transformed by those
applications.”-Dr. Cliff Hou, VP Technology Development,
TSMC
“The ARM Neoverse N1 CCIX-enabled SDP with the Alveo accelerator
card is a highly-performant platform designed to enable the next
generation of applications to be developed. The seamless
data-sharing among the heterogeneous devices demonstrates the
successful integration of CCIX IP from multiple vendors and the
expanding reach of CCIX technology.”-Gaurav Singh, corporate
vice president, Silicon Architecture and Verification,
Xilinx
About Arm
Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity
revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses
operate. Our advanced, energy-efficient processor designs have
enabled intelligent computing in more than 130 billion chips. More
than 70% of the world’s population are using Arm technology, which
is securely powering products from the sensor to the smartphone to
the supercomputer. This technology combined with our IoT software
and end-to-end connectivity, device and data management platform
enables customers to derive real business value from their
connected devices and data. Together with our 1,000+ technology
partners we are at the forefront of designing, securing and
managing all areas of compute from the chip to the cloud.
About Cadence
Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies
to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way
people live, work and play. Cadence’s software, hardware and
semiconductor IP are used by customers to deliver products to
market faster. The company’s System Design Enablement strategy
helps customers develop differentiated products—from chips to
boards to systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter,
automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments.
Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies
to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
About TSMC
TSMC is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry,
providing the industry’s leading process technology and the foundry
segment’s largest portfolio of process-proven libraries, IPs,
design tools and reference flows. The Company’s owned capacity in
2019 is expected to reach above 12 million (12-inch equivalent)
wafers, including capacity from three advanced 12-inch GIGAFAB®
facilities, four eight-inch fabs, one six-inch fab, as well as
TSMC’s wholly owned subsidiaries, WaferTech, TSMC China, and TSMC
Nanjing. TSMC is the first foundry to provide 7-nanometer
production capabilities. Its corporate headquarters are in Hsinchu,
Taiwan. For more information about TSMC please visit
http://www.tsmc.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs and the
ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in
the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent and connected
world of the future. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
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