Benefits And Challenges Of Using Chiplets

The move to chiplets opens the door to more features than can be packed into a reticle-sized SoC. That potentially means more processing power, simpler designs, and higher yields. But it's not as simple as swapping LEGO blocks into a chassis. Ashley Stevens, director of product management and marketing at Arteris, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about the challenges of using coherent versus non-coherent interfaces between chiplets, the implications of heterogeneous versus homogeneous chiplets, and the impact on partitioning and derivative designs.