Chiplets are a modular approach to silicon design that benefit automotive technologies by enhancing scalability, cost efficiency, and performance.
Co-authored by Suraj Gajendra, Vice President, Automotive Products and Solutions, Arm, and Bart Placklé, Vice President, Automotive, at imec.
The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation as part of its shift towards the next-generation of sophisticated, software defined vehicles (SDVs). This is leading to the consolidation of a wide range of on-board electronic components into a smaller number of high-performance compute elements. However, the rapid evolution of automotive technology presents a growing challenge – how to deliver the necessary computational power in a resource-efficient and cost-effective manner.
Traditional monolithic semiconductor designs are reaching their limits. The rising demand for autonomous driving, immersive infotainment, and enhanced connectivity is stretching conventional chip architectures to their breaking point.
Fortunately, there is a solution through chiplets that address these challenges. Within the automotive industry, chiplets are already emerging as a key technology to enable innovative new system-on-chip (SoC) designs for automotive silicon, while enhancing compute scalability and flexibility.