System-on-Chip Platforms

Soc Solutions LLC develops products for the rapidly growing System on Chip (SoC) design market, which is becoming the dominant method for fielding high-volume consumer-oriented Embedded Systems.  SoC Solutions enables designers to expand their core product by providing processor-based platforms with pre-integrated hardware and software.

In most cases, development groups are driven by time-to-market demands and can only effectively focus on developing the hardware or software IP that would differentiate them in the market.  Typically, however, these same groups will be side-tracked by developing, verifying and integrating full sub-systems to enable that IP.  SoC Solutions provides the integrated core solution, or platform, which will save many man-months of development time and get you to market quicker.

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The SoC Solutions / CAST Partnership

In 2005, CAST and SoC Solutions announced a partnership to supply processor platforms with pre-integrated IP components from CAST for designers working with ARM® processors and the AMBA bus architecture.  The Pre-integrated IP™ (PiP) products give SoC designers a head start by providing the basic hardware and software infrastructure needed for an ARM-based SoC.

Each PiP includes several essential IP cores — bus controllers, timers, interrupt controllers, UARTs, SRAM controllers, I/O interfaces, and more — plus all the device drivers and boot code needed to start developing application software. They also include embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) support, and a comprehensive test suite that feature bus functional simulation models.

The PIP7-TDMI Native Bus Pre-Integrated IP platform provides the essential IP cores and infrastructure software needed for systems using the native TDMI bus of the ARM7 family of microprocessors.

ARM 7/9 AMBA Platform