Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip Designs

Аннотация

Silicon technology now allows us to build chips consisting of hundreds of millions of transistors. This technology has enabled new levels of system integration onto a single chip, and at the same time has completely revolutionized how chip design is done. The demand for more powerful products and the huge capacity of today’s silicon technology have moved System-on-Chip (SoC) designs from leading edge to mainstream design practice. These chips have one, and often several, processors on chip, as well as large amounts of memory, bus-based architectures, peripherals, coprocessors, and I/O channels. These chips are true systems, far more similar to the boards designed ten years ago than to the chips of even a few years ago.