Title :
Closing the SoC design gap
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Current mainstream system-on-chip (SoC) designs do not yet fully exploit the 100 million transistors per chip possible with today´s mainstream silicon technology. System-level design and extensible processors can bridge the gap between silicon technology and actual SoC complexities. However, SoCs comprising 1,000 processors at a billion transistors by the end of the decade will require research advances in key areas like ESL design methodologies and NoC architectures.
Keywords :
embedded systems; integrated logic circuits; system-on-chip; technological forecasting; custom logic hardware; embedded systems; silicon technology; system-level design; system-on-chip; Application specific integrated circuits; Application specific processors; Cellular phones; Costs; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Logic; Manufacturing; Registers; Silicon;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2003.1231200
