Title :
Configurable systems-on-chip: commercial and academic approaches
Author_Institution :
Inst. fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Systems-on-chip (SoCs) has become reality now, driven by fast development of CMOS VLSI technologies. Complex system integration on to one single die introduces a set of various challenges and perspectives for industrial and academic institutions. Important issues to be addressed here are cost-effective technologies, efficient and application-tailored hardware/software architectures, and corresponding IP-based EDA methods. Due to exponentially increasing CMOS mask costs, essential aspects for the industry are now adaptivity of SoCs, which can be realized by integrating reconfigurable re-usable hardware parts on different granularities into configurable systems-on-chip (CSoCs).
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; circuit CAD; hardware-software codesign; industrial property; integrated circuit design; reconfigurable architectures; system-on-chip; CMOS VLSI technology; CMOS mask costs; CSoC; IP-based EDA methods; SoC; SoC adaptivity; academic approaches; commercial approaches; complex system integration; configurable systems-on-chip; cost-effective technologies; efficient application-tailored hardware/software architectures; reconfigurable re-usable hardware parts; CMOS technology; Costs; Gallium arsenide; Germanium silicon alloys; Hardware design languages; Java; Micromechanical devices; Optical design; Silicon germanium; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7596-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046297
