Tutorial T2B: Cost/Application/Time to Market Driven SoC Design and Manufacturing Strategy

Summary form only given, as follows. Choosing the right strategy for SoC design is critical to have maximum business benefit out of the SoC. This tutorial looks at different factors, like cost, application of use, time to market, time in market etc, which can impact the SoC design life-cycle. These factors can affect several parameters like partitioning of SoC functionalities into hardware/software, selection of right hardware platform like FPGA/structured ASIC/ ASIC/ASIP, selection of process node/number of metal layers/package etc. The business factors can even influence design parameters like power gating, multi Vt design, voltage island etc. It can also influence the design methodology like selection of IP, selection of the verification process and usage of high-level design exploration flow etc.