Closing the SoC Design Gap

  • Authors:
  • Jörg Henkel

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2003

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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.