System on chip: challenges and design for manufacturing

Advances in lithography, semiconductor processes and circuit design techniques have led to new opportunities to integrate most of the electronic functions encountered in systems. This single-chip solution (SoC) includes functions such as digital signal processing (DSP), memory, microcontrollers and wireless transceivers, enabling the system to communicate with other systems and the Internet. This multi-disciplinary approach calls for increasing design for manufacturing (DFM) synergy to enable all the functions without compromising functionality and performance of each function.