Abstract :
Summary form only given. Digital consumer and mobile products have continuously accommodated more features and functions. For example, recent high-end cellular phones work as multi-modal wireless communicators that handle various formats; GSM, 3G, BT, WiFi and so on. In addition, they also operate as terrestrial digital TV viewers, MP3 music players, digital cameras, substitutes for credit cards, GPS locators and many more. These products require to best combine highly integrated SoC´s and sophisticated software stacks in a timely manner. It is essential to establish a hardware/software co-design/verification environment with an ESL design methodologies. Another key is an IP reuse platform where various functions can be implemented on an SoC by legacy sub-systems with a low-power multi-processor architecture. These challenges are getting more complicated in deep sub-100 nm technology nodes.
Keywords :
consumer electronics; mobile handsets; system-on-chip; GPS locators; GSM; MP3 music players; WiFi; digital cameras; digital consumer; hardware-software codesign-verification environment; high-end cellular phones; mobile SoC; multimodal wireless communicators; multiprocessor architecture; terrestrial digital TV viewers; Cellular phones; Credit cards; Design methodology; Digital TV; Digital audio players; Digital cameras; GSM; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Wireless communication;
