VLSI: Systems on a Chip : IFIP TC10 WG10.5 Tenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI '99) December 1-4, 1999, Lisboa, ... in Information and Communication Technology) - Hardcover

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For over three decades now, silicon capacity has steadily been doubling every year and a half with equally staggering improvements continuously being observed in operating speeds. This increase in capacity has allowed for more complex systems to be built on a single silicon chip. Coupled with this functionality increase, speed improvements have fueled tremendous advancements in computing and have enabled new multi-media applications. Such trends, aimed at integrating higher levels of circuit functionality are tightly related to an emphasis on compactness in consumer electronic products and a widespread growth and interest in wireless communications and products. These trends are expected to persist for some time as technology and design methodologies continue to evolve and the era of Systems on a Chip has definitely come of age. While technology improvements and spiraling silicon capacity allow designers to pack more functions onto a single piece of silicon, they also highlight a pressing challenge for system designers to keep up with such amazing complexity. To handle higher operating speeds and the constraints of portability and connectivity, new circuit techniques have appeared. Intensive research and progress in EDA tools, design methodologies and techniques is required to empower designers with the ability to make efficient use of the potential offered by this increasing silicon capacity and complexity and to enable them to design, test, verify and build such systems.

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The current trend towards the realization of complex and versatile Systems on a Chip requires the combined efforts and attention of experts in a wide range of areas including microsystems, embedded hardware/software systems, dedicated ASIC and programmable logic hardware, reconfigurable computing, wireless communications and RF issues, video and image processing, memory systems, low power design techniques, design, test and verification algorithms, modeling and simulation, logic synthesis, and interconnect analysis. Thus, the contributions presented herein address a wide range of Systems on a Chip problems.
VLSI: Systems on a Chip comprises the selected proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI '99), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 1999. The volume is organized around two themes, in which the following topics are addressed:
VLSI Systems Design and Applications

• Analog Systems Design
• Analog Modeling and Design
• Image Processing
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Memory and System Design
• Low Power Design

VLSI Design Methods and CAD

• Test and Verification
• Analog CAD and Interconnect
• Fundamental CAD Algorithms
• Verification and Simulation
• CAD for Physical Design
• High-Level Synthesis and Verification of Embedded Systems

VLSI: Systems on a Chip is essential reading for researchers working on system integration, design, and CAD.