System-on-Chip design

This tutorial is a general introduction to System-on-Chip (SoC) design. In the paper, we will discuss four areas: first, an overview of SoC including descriptions of the major approaches and motivating factors behind this development. Next, we will briefly summarise key design methodologies, processes and flows. SoC, by its nature, involves embedded software (ESW) in many designs, so we will summarise the key areas and requirements for effective ESW development. Finally, we will briefly describe some of the next-generation, advanced concepts that are emerging for SoCs. To maximise the usefulness of this paper, an extensive set of references is given