Today is a very exciting day at Octavo Systems. We’re officially launching our first product, the OSD3358-512M. The OSD3358 is a System-In-Package (SiP) device that integrates the Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ AM3358 Arm® Cortex®-A8 processor, the TI TPS65217C PMIC, the TI TL5209 LDO, a 512MB DDR3, and over 140 Passives into a single easy to use BGA package. The OSD3358 gives designers of all levels access to unprecedented integration and to ease of use. (Read More…)
Octavo Systems Helps Bridge the Prototype-to-Production Gap
Austin, Texas (May 9, 2016) – Octavo Systems LLC (Octavo) today launched a new platform that makes it easier than ever for designers to quickly create production-ready systems based on the Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ AM335x processor with an ARM® Cortex®-A8 core. The OSD3358, the first in a family of System-In-Package (SiP) devices, is geared to help developers who are using the BeagleBone® Black single board computing (SBC) platform move from prototype to production effortlessly. (Read More…)
In the landmark paper of 1965, Gordon Moore[1] made an observation stating that with cost of manufacturing per device falling, it becomes economical to pack more and more devices in an IC chip. In his paper, Moore projected the number of devices in an IC chip would double every one to two years. This observation soon took the form of a proxy for future growth estimates in the semiconductor industry.
For decades, Moore’s law has been the benchmark for semiconductor technology development, eventually becoming a roadmap and a self-fulfilling prophecy for IC development. Figure 1[2] shows the growth of the number of devices in a semiconductor chip over time and tracks well with Moore’s projection. (Read More…)
Moore’s Law has served us well for over a half of a century. It drove the semiconductor (SC) process technology roadmap. It got us to think about putting more transistors on an integrated circuit to the point where it is no longer a nightmare to consider billions of transistors on one piece of silicon. In fact, several years ago I began to use the phrase “transistors are becoming a buck a billion” to put a new perspective on the success of Moore’s Law.
But even with the great success the SC industry has had, we continue to find ourselves unable to accomplish the ultimate goal, a complete system on a chip. Yes, we talk about System on Chip (SoC) technology as the solution (now what was the problem again?). However, the advancements in IC technology have actually defeated the primary goal of SoC, the integration of a complete system on a single piece of silicon. In the past I have actually suggested that it should be SSoC rather than SoC as all we have been able to do is a Sub-System on a Chip. (Read More…)
Since the early 1960s, advances in semiconductor technology have been tracking Moore’s law. This “law”, based on a paper by Gordon Moore[i], states that the number of transistors per chip will double about every 18 months. For decades Moore’s law has been the overarching benchmark for development in the Semiconductor industry, especially in regards to System-On-Chip (SoC) development. (Read More…)
Welcome to Octavo Systems! We are so glad you are here!
We are a small company with a big dream, to bring System-In-Package (SiP) technology to the masses. We believe the only way for Moore’s law to continue is to have wide spread adoption of SiPs. Today SiPs are typically only available to the largest electronics companies. We want to change that. Our technology and products are geared to meet the needs of any size company. We know that providing this technology to such a wide group of innovators will spur the creation of new and exciting products that couldn’t have been built before. (Read More…)
