As a fab-less IP provider, getting your IP silicon-proven is a risky, time consuming and expensive process. In this talk we will take a look at the M³ Platform Architecture which is meant to provide a trustworthy tape-out platform that, due to its strong isolation mechanism, allows for multi-IP tape-outs, which allows cost-sharing and shortens development time to tape-out considerably. The³ M platform architecture is a spatial fully-tiled architecture which features the Trusted Communication Unit as its main isolation and communication control component. The TCU enables implementation flexibility by abstracting away the communication infrastructure. It also provides HW-assisted IP-independent access control to all IP with an interface to the co-designed M³ OS.

Michael Raitza is research group leader of the scalable computing hardware group at the Barkhausen Institut in Dresden, Germany.