The ASIP Advantage

Today, developers of electronic systems face the challenge of designing differentiating products with a higher level of flexibility, to be able to quickly adapt to tiered and changing market needs.

This trend to increase the flexibility of electronic devices and systems has fueled the use of IP cores in the form of application-specific processors (ASIPs), enabling both software programmability and the high performance and lower power of specialised solutions.

ASIP

ASIPs span the wide architectural spectrum between general-purpose microprocessors and hardwired data paths (see diagram). ASIPs can offer more instruction-level and data-level parallelism, as well as more architectural specialisation, than general-purpose solutions.

Thanks to the architectural exploration capabilities of the IP Designer retargetable tool suite, based on the nML processor description language, designers can determine the optimal operation point in the spectrum of architectural solutions for their application.

Target's customers own any ASIP core that they design with the IP Designer tool suite. As ASIPs always embed the customer's application knowledge, Target believes that a royalty free electronic design automation (EDA) business model is right for ASIPs.

News

Imec and Target Present Multi-Standard Low-Power LDPC Engine for Multi-Gbps Wireless Communication

Huawei Adopts Target’s IP Designer Tool-Suite to Build Next-Generation Baseband DSP

Target’s IP Designer Tool-Suite Adopted by Dialog Semiconductor to Create OpenVG Graphics Processor Core

Products/Technology

IP Designer
A retargetable tool-suite
for ASIP design
IP Programmer
Efficient SDKs for
ASIP-based SoCs
ASIP Modeling Services
Support services to develop nML processor models for IP Designer and IP Programmer
MP Designer
Multicore parallelization and platform generation

SPRING 2013 EVENTS

 

  • Mobile World Congress
    Barcelona, Feb. 25-28
  • Embedded World
    Nuremberg, Feb. 26-28
  • CDNLive Silicon Valley
    Santa Clara, Mar. 12
  • Design Automation & Test in Europe
    Grenoble, Mar. 19-21
  • SNUG Silicon Valley
    Santa Clara, Mar. 26
  • Linley Mobile Conf.
    Santa Clara, Apr. 17-18
  • Design West
    San Jose, Apr. 23-25
  • ChipEx
    Tel Aviv, May 1
  • Embedded Systems Expo
    Tokyo, May 8-10
  • Multicore DevCon
    Santa Clara, May 21-22
  • Design Automation Conf.
    Austin, June 3-5

TARGET IS HIRING

 

We are looking for enthusiastic engineers to expand our teams in Leuven, Belgium, and Boulder, Colorado. Check out our career pages for details.