Outsourcing SoC Network Design Just Makes Sense

Frank Ferro of Sonics Inc. notes that today's complex SoCs are composed of many IP blocks; many of those pieces of IP are outsourced. Perhaps, Ferro muses, it makes just as much sense to outsource the on-chip network that links all that IP on an SoC.

Frank Ferro

Oct. 26, 2009

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Frank Ferro

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rambus Inc.

Frank Ferro is the senior director of product marketing at Rambus Inc. responsible for memory interface IP products. Having spent more than 20 years at AT&T, Lucent, and Agere Systems, he has extensive experience in the wireless communications, networking, and consumer electronics fields.

Mr. Ferro holds an executive MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, an MS in computer science, and a BSET in electronic engineering technology from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.