System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures integrate now many different components, such as processors, accelerators, memory, and I/O blocks, some but not all of which may have caches. Because the validation effort with simulation-based validation techniques, as currently used in industry, grows exponentially with the complexity of the SoC, we investigate in this paper the use of formal verification te...

System-on-chip (SoC) is evolving as a new design style, where an entire system is built by reusing pre-designed, pre-verified IP (intellectual property) cores. Embedded with numerous heterogeneous and complex IP cores, an SoC can be viewed as an interconnected network of various functional modules. This new design style shortens time-to-market while meeting various design requirements, such as ...

To save layout area for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design in the SOC era, test chip with large size NMOS devices placed under bond pads has been fabricated in 0.35-μm one-poly-four-metal (1P4M) 3.3V CMOS process for verification. The bond pads had been drawn with different layout patterns on the inter-layer metals to investigate the effect of bonding stress on the active devices u...

Seong Mo Park et al. 525 ABSTRACT⎯In this letter, we present a design of a single chip video decoder called advanced mobile video ASIC (A-MoVa) for mobile multimedia applications. This chip uses a mixed hardware/software architecture to improve both its performance and its flexibility. We designed the chip using a partition between the hardware and software blocks, and developed the architectur...

An embedded crystal (eCrystal) oscillator is implemented by a standard CMOS process to enable a truly single-chip and system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution. The eCrystal eliminates the use of a bulky quartz crystal or any external reference sources, and provides a stable clock source to the system as a quartz crystal does. Under the variations of silicon manufacturing process, operation voltage, and ...

There is a growing demand for solutions allowing to design complex systems-on-chip (SoC) at high abstraction levels. The Gannet project proposes a functional programming approach for high-abstraction design of very large SoCs. Gannet is a distributed service-based SoC architecture, i.e. a network of services offered by hardware or software cores. The functionality of the system is defined by a ...

A globally shared bus increasingly cannot meet the demands of system-on-a-chip (SOC) interconnects because the high wire loads and resistance levels result in slow signal propagation. A popular alternative, using unidirectional point-to-point connections, and multiplexers, requires even more chip space and still suffers from many of the same problems (for example, difficulties in timing validat...

Integrating the entire system on a chip (SOC) is one of themain challenges formany researchers all over the world. One of the major breakthroughs toward achieving this goal has been the ability to manufacture multiple gate oxides for different requirements on the same chip. The most attractive of the techniques currently in the literature is the implantation of nitrogen in silicon, which can be...

UNLABELLED In many genomic studies, one works with genome-position-dependent data, e.g. ChIP-chip or ChIP-Seq scores. Using conventional tools, it can be difficult to get a good feel for the data, especially the distribution of features. This article argues that the so-called Hilbert curve visualization can complement genome browsers and help to get further insights into the structure of one's ...