Arteris wins AI Engineering Innovation Award

Arteris was recognised for this year’s launch of FlexGen, a smart network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP technology.

Network-on-Chip (NoC) design for AI-centric semiconductors, particularly those targeting data centre and automotive self-driving applications, presents significant complexity and requires specialised engineering expertise. These designs often incorporate hundreds or thousands of processing elements, making traditional on-chip communication development both time-intensive and prone to error. With FlexGen smart NoC IP, Arteris has successfully automated critical aspects of NoC creation, ensuring rapid, correct-by-design interconnect fabrics that optimize performance and efficiency for AI-driven SoCs.

Several early customer designs harnessing FlexGen’s automation have reported 10x improvements in productivity, combined with up to 30% reduction in wire length and 10% reduction in latency compared with manual NoC implementations by expert design engineers. Incremental operation produces results that are proportional to changes to FlexGen inputs. Full FlexNoC 5 NoC IP manual editing capability complements FlexGen automated NoC IP generation.

“The recognition of FlexGen with the 'AI Engineering Innovation Award' is a testament to the incredible momentum we’re witnessing in the AI landscape and the advancements Arteris is making to shape its future," said K. Charles Janac, President and CEO, Arteris. "With the launch of FlexGen, we've tackled the industry’s toughest challenge: designing complex, high-performance NoCs for AI-driven SoCs and chiplets. We're committed to successfully enabling more chip designers, regardless of their prior NoC experience, to automate critical aspects of NoC creation that deliver excellent quality and optimise performance and efficiency.”

The AI Breakthrough Awards program recognises the most innovative companies, technologies, and products in the global artificial intelligence market. With over 5,000 nominations from all over the world received in 2025, the programme spotlights breakthrough solutions that are driving meaningful advancement across various industries, including Internet of Things (IoT), fintech, cleantech, cybersecurity, edtech, martech, agtech, digital health, and of course AI.