Toshiba licenses SonicsSX on-chip network

Intelligent on-chip communications solutions supplier Sonics Inc announced on Wednesday that technology company Toshiba Corporation has licensed SonicsSX, a high-performance on-chip network, targeted at video-based SoCs (system-on-chips).

No financial details were disclosed.

According to the company, the latest license represents an extension of Toshiba's adoption of Sonics' technology for its SoC designs. SonicsSX is the company's highest performance product with up to 16GB/s bandwidth per port and is suited for solving the data throughput requirements of powerful video SoCs.

Using the company's technology, Toshiba has designed multiple generations of SoCs for key applications ranging from digital television systems to application processors for cell phones and video game engines.

SonicsSX accelerates video performance and facilitates integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for high-quality, high-definition video, it offers network-on-chip (NoC) capabilities for higher operating clock frequencies, native support for 2D data transactions and an expanded data bus width to 256 bits.

The product also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while balancing the traffic among the channels.

The device has built-in security features that provide protection for digital media and its low-power circuitry ensures low active power for mobile battery-powered applications.

In addition, the company offers the SonicsStudio Development Environment, which supports SonicsSX for quick SoC architecture and performance analysis.

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