Panel: What is the Proper System on Chip Design Methodology

ion model or flexible PCB solutions cannot offer a valid solution for the next millinium SoCs . James G. Dougherty, Integrated Systems Silicon LTD, Belfast, Northern Ireland ISS and its design technology/methodology has been established in the knowledge that SoC design requires an entirely new mindset, which leaves behind the old attitudes and habits of the ASIC and full custom IC era. If it is believed that SoC is inevitable, there have to be much improved levels of design productivity, many times higher than is possible with today’s approaches to EDA, and every design team will have to use them. Design reuse is much vaunted, but current levels of understanding of the engineering challenges are basic, and consequently there are no EDA tools for building complex and deeply reuseable IP. Much innovation is required. The industry is discovering painfully slowly that entirely new design methodologies are required to provide the industry with the productivity demanded by market timescale...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: DAC
• Authors: Richard Goering, Pierre Bricaud, James G. Dougherty, Steve Glaser, Michael Keating, Robert Payne, Davoud Samani
• Keywords: Computer Architecture, DAC 1999, Design, Design Reuse, IC Centric View