Practical Placement & Routing Flow | Maven Silicon

With the continuous and enormous increase in the complexity of modern-day chips, it is almost impossible for any chipmaker/IDM company to design an SoC from scratch. So, these chipmakers will depend on other IP (Intellectual Property) development companies for some of the sub-blocks and they will design the remaining sub-blocks on their own, for designing the complex SoCs as shown in the below figure. Using SoC design methodology, we integrate almost all these components/sub-blocks on a single die and fabricate it as a chip. To understand more about SoC, I recommend the readers, to go through the article on SoC.