Solving the Chiplet Design Jigsaw Puzzle

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Using chiplets is inevitable. There are many reasons why companies are moving to chiplets—the key driver is design re-use, which can not only decrease cost of a single product but can also reduce the cost of making different designs with that same chiplet. Packaging technology is good enough to offset the downsides. Advanced packaging is becoming cheaper and is being offered by more foundry companies, so the barrier to making chiplet architectures has decreased so that chiplets are becoming mainstream.

There are different ways to approach SoC design using chiplets. Companies have approached chiplet architecture differently, with some choosing to decentralize the I/O and others choosing to decentralize the compute. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.