Emerging System-on-Chip (SoC) Technologies
Regardless of the application (e.g., digital consumer, networking, mobile), System-on-Chip (SoC) plays an important role in allowing designers to integrate several CPUs, DSPs, caches, memory blocks, I/O controllers, and many more hardware blocks all on a single device.
The term SoC is applied to a wide variety of technologies, issues, and subjects such as semiconductor, IPs, high-performance CPU and DSP cores, embedded memories, complex I/O and media controllers, interconnect-related challenges, EDA tools, high-speed interfaces and much more. As we are moving from 90 nm to 65nm and now 45 nm technologies –even though we are able to integrate hundreds of millions of transistors on a monolithic slice of silicon –many design issues such as power consumptions, speed, leakage current and many EDA-related tools issues remains as significant design challenges that the design communities still struggling with on every new chip. By the time we find reasonable and cost effective solutions for these challenges, the sub 45nm technologies –on the near horizon –is bringing its new series of issues at a much higher magnitude at all levels of design, development, fabrication, testing, and packaging.
Only by a systematic leaning and collaboration among experts and engineers who are designing these complex SoCs, we can share design experiences and address these challenging problems more efficiently and effectively.
In the Savant 4th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference and Exhibit on November 1 and 2, 2006, Radisson Hotel Newport Beach, we are addressing all the key SoC-related issues in a two day conference with outstanding presentations from key industry experts as well as scientists from academia and recognized research centers.
http://www.SoCconference.com
