Toshiba Licenses Sonics' On-Chip Network for Video Solutions

Sonics, Inc., a supplier of intelligent on-chip communications solutions, said that Toshiba has licensed SonicsSX, an on-chip network, targeted at video-based SoCs (system-on-chips).

"Sonics is a valued partner and its on-chip network expertise has been key to our next-generation SoC design initiatives," said Takashi Yoshimori, Assistant Chief Technology Executive of SoC Design/Application. "During our long-standing partnership, Sonics' support of our system LSI programs has been invaluable. Sonics SoC solutions helped us achieve the performance goals for our video-intensive applications."

"As a provider of digital consumer products, Toshiba understands the advantage of using an SoC platform that provides performance, ease-of-integration, time-to-market benefits and true IP reuse," said Jack Browne, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Sonics. "We look forward to our continued collaboration as Toshiba expands its home entertainment developments around the globe."

First introduced in July 2008, SonicsSX accelerates video performance and eases global integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for HD video, SonicsSX 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. It also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while automatically balancing the traffic among the channels.

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

The SonicsStudio Development Environment supports SonicsSX for SoC architecture and performance analysis. Developers have the advantage of completing data flow analysis during the architecture phase of product development rather than in later stages of product completion. This provides integration with software and shorter overall product development schedules.

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