Closing the SoC design gap

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.