As data centers continue to scale to meet the demands of high-bandwidth streaming, 5G wireless, and IoT connectivity, the complexity of switch fabric System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design has reached unprecedented levels. Today, Socionext announces the release of a new white paper titled “Optimizing High-Bandwidth Switch Fabric SoC Design: Minimizing Implementation Risks, Ensuring First-Pass Success, and Accelerating Time-to-Market.”
This comprehensive white paper examines the crucial role of switch fabric SoC in facilitating efficient, high-speed data routing within modern data centers. It provides a deep dive into the architectural components of these SoCs, highlighting high-speed I/O, internal fabric interconnects, and traffic management logic, and explains how they collectively support bandwidths of up to 102.4 terabits per second.
Key Highlights Include:
- Technical Insight: A detailed look at the signal integrity challenges posed by high-speed SerDes interfaces, including impedance control, insertion loss, and crosstalk mitigation across thousands of differential signals.
- Power Integrity Assessment: Analysis of power delivery networks and their impact on SerDes performance, emphasizing the importance of managing power supply noise across the die, package, and PCB.
- Design Flow Innovation: A proven methodology for early-stage simulation of SoC floorplans, package designs, and data transmission channels—enabling rapid iteration and system-level optimization before physical design begins.
- Thermal Management: Integration of FloTHERM thermal analysis to ensure junction temperature compliance and overall system reliability.
Designing SoCs at these bandwidths is a monumental challenge. This white paper outlines a practical, simulation-driven design flow that empowers engineering teams to reduce risk, achieve first-pass silicon success, and accelerate time-to-market.
The white paper is available for download at https://socionextus.com/spotlights/optimizing-high-bandwidth-switch-fabric-soc-design/
For more information or to schedule a briefing with one of our SoC design experts, please contact snamail@us.socionext.com.
