Next generation wireless-multimedia devices: who is up for the challenge?

  • Authors:

  • Juan C. Rey;Andreas Kuehlmann;Jan Rabaey;Cormac Conroy;Ted Vucurevich;Ikuya Kawasaki;Tuna B. Tarim

  • Affiliations:

  • Mentor Graphics Corporation, San Jose, CA;Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA;UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;Qualcomm, San Jose, CA;Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA;Renesas Technology Corp., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan;Texas Instruments Inc.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 45th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Yesterday's cell phones have rapidly evolved into versatile multi-media computers heavily loaded with a wide spectrum of technologies to support many functions and use modes. Designing and verifying such complex devices becomes increasingly challenging due to the need to: incorporate larger number of functions and diverse use modes, increased bandwidth, provide support for multimedia devices with high resolution, offer new methods for user interactions, and all of this at a fixed power budget and with high reliability. In addition, teams need to keep up with the convergence of wireless radio algorithms and be able to support more functionality moving into the software layer.