Extending systems-on-chip to the third dimension: performance, cost and technological tradeoffs

Abstract—Because of the today’s market demand for highperformance, high-density portable hand-held applications, electronic system design technology has shifted the focus from 2-D planar SoC single-chip solutions to different alternative options as tiled silicon and single-level embedded modules as well as 3D integration. Among the various choices, finding an optimal solution for system implementation dealt usually with cost, performance and other technological trade-off analysis at the system conceptual level. It has been identified that the decisions made within the first 20% of the total design cycle time will ultimately result upto 80% of the final product cost. In this paper, we discuss appropriate and realistic metric for performance and cost trade-off analysis both at system conceptual level (up-front in the design phase) and at implementation phase for verification in the three-dimensional integration. In order to validate the methodology, two ubiquitous electronic sys...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICCAD
• Authors: Roshan Weerasekera, Li-Rong Zheng, Dinesh Pamunuwa, Hannu Tenhunen
• Keywords: Cost Trade-off Analysis, Hardware, ICCAD 2007, Technological Trade-off Analysis, Various Implementation Schemes