EE Times:“Customers are saying that having just the IP doesn’t help them, they need an environment where they can explore how the IP will behave in the final environment, completely up front, so they can work with the semiconductor partner and say, I need this IP, I need this many versions of it, these configurations of it,” De Schutter said. “They also want to start the software development well before the car comes out. Customers said the only true solution is being able to do all this pre-silicon.”
“We’ve shown the world how powerful our [accelerator] is, how power efficient it is, which are the key ingredients for automotive,” he said. “Bringing this together is great for us, of course, it’s exciting because it opens up new ways to go into the market.”
“It’s not just the accelerator part, getting a high performing, super power-efficient ML SoC together means you need to have a lot of other pieces connected to that,” he said. “Theoretically a company could say, give me your IP and I’ll build it into my product, but then how do they test that? How do they virtualise it? How do they make a test run on a chip that doesn’t exist yet?”
“That will help us define our path in more detail,” Kroeger said. “The automotive world needs exactly the product we’re trying to enable here, and this is the first step we are taking.”
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