Comparison of hardware IP components for system-on-chip

Author

Salminen, Erno ; Kuusilinna, Kimmo ; Hamalainen, Timo D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

fYear

2004

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

73

Abstract

This work presents a brief comparison of both academic and commercial intellectual property (IP) components. The aim is to gain insight to contemporary IP components regarding their application domains and cost in terms of area and energy. It has been estimated that in the future the maximum size of components must be in the range of 50-100 kilogates. According to this study, contemporary IP components mostly conform to this size limit. Selecting the most appropriate IP candidates is crucial for successful SoC design. However, IP comparison and selection is hard since even basic information is often missing.

Keywords

circuit CAD; industrial property; integrated circuit design; system-on-chip; IP comparison; IP component size limit; IP selection; SoC design; academic IP components; application domains; area cost; commercial IP components; energy cost; hardware IP components; intellectual property components; maximum component size; system-on-chip; Application software; Clocks; Costs; Documentation; Hardware; Intellectual property; Microprocessors; Modems; Random access memory; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System-on-Chip, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8558-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSOC.2004.1411149

Filename

1411149