Arm Neoverse CSS reduces development time and cost
Pre-integrated and validated configurations of Arm Neoverse platforms, the Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) reduces SoC design complexity. Arm said it reduces development cost and improve time-to-market. In one partner implementation, it is reported to have saved 80 engineering years.
The Arm Neoverse CSS N2 is the first generation of Arm CSS, based on the Arm Neoverse N2 platform. The rising cost and complexity of SoC design is driving some players to seek efficient, specialised processing, said Arm.
Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems enable its ecosystem partners to build specialised silicon at lower cost, with less risk and a faster time-to-market compared to discrete IP, said the company. “Importantly, we’re empowering our partners to focus limited resources on key differentiation while Arm does what we do best – deliver the scalable and efficient compute foundation,” said Mohamed Awad, senior vice president and general manager of Arm’s infrastructure line of business.
The first-generation CSS product, Arm CSS N2, is a pre-integrated, pre-validated, PPA-optimised configuration of the Neoverse N2 platform. CSS N2 accelerates time-to-market by leveraging the performance per watt efficiency of the Neoverse N2 platform, optimised for an advanced 5nm process. It is delivered to partners in a customisable compute subsystem which allows for new degrees of innovation freedom and can be leveraged as-is or further customised. This allows partners to differentiate on areas such as memory, IO, acceleration or physical topology for example, in the pursuit of workload-optimised custom silicon solutions.
CSS N2 allows partners to focus engineering resources on SoC and system level innovation, said Arm.
CSS N2 also enables specialised domain specific accelerator integration – including AI – and achieves market-leading performance per watt for cloud native workloads.
CSS N2 is available today and is silicon proven.
