The new products is meant to address interconnect issues that IC designers encounter, including the design of ICs with lower power, higher performance and lower silicon area, according to a statement from Arteris.

Arteris generally targets high-end, very complex designs – such as multiple, multiple IPs, high- performance, and complex power management.

With its FlexWay and FlexNoC packages, Arteris has broadened its scope to a larger set of designers with a scaled-back solution that works within the existing bus-based designs, according to the company.

 Arteris said that while FlexNoC is intended to implement NoCs in medium-end to high-end SoC designs, FlexWay meets the needs of less complex SoC designs. 

FlexNoC offers users the choice, per connection, to use a standard packet format, or a zero-latency packet format to carry protocol information. The use of the zero-latency packet format lets users do away with any penalty involved in the packetisation process. 

Among the other applications of FlexNoC are IC subsystems like video, graphic subsystems, and medium-complexity SoCs. 

According to Arteris, FlexWay is meant to be used as a bus replacement for simple SoC designs as well as to address peripheral interconnect applications on more complex designs.

FlexWay can also be used in advanced, high-performance buses (AHB), OCP busses, peripheral interconnect, as also multi-layered AHB.

The FlexNoC and FlexWay products, according to Arteris, are supported by the unified FlexArtist design tool set, which assembles NoC IP to speed up SoC.