Intel Corp. has acquired NetSpeed Systems, a San Jose-based startup of system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property (IP).
The configurable and synthesizable offerings from NetSpeed will help Intel develop and test new SoCs with an increasing set of IP. The NetSpeed employees will join Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) led by Jim Keller and co-founder and CEO, Sundari Mitra, will continue to lead the team as an Intel VP reporting to Keller.
NetSpeed’s NoC tool automates SoC front-end design and generates programmable, synthesizable and efficient interconnect fabrics. Intel said this is important because as SoCs become more complex, NetSpeed’s technology will help engineers estimate and optimize SoC performance in advanced of manufacturing through a system-level approach, user-driven automation and advanced algorithms.
