Challenges ofDigital Consumer andMobile SoC's: MoreMoorePossible?

Digital consumer andmobileproducts havecontinuously accommodated more features andfunctions. Forexample, recent high-end cellular phones workas multi-modal wireless communicators thathandle various formats; GSM,3G,BT, WiFiandsoon.Inaddition, theyalso operate asterrestrial digital TVviewers, MP3 musicplayers, digital cameras, substitutes forcredit cards, GPSlocators andmany more.Theseproducts require tobestcombinehighly integrated SoC'sand sophisticated software stacks ina timely manner. Itisessential toestablish a hardware/software co-design/verifi cation environment withan ESL design methodologies. Another keyisanIPreuse platform wherevarious functions canbe implemented onanSoCbylegacy sub-systems withalow-power multi-processor architecture. Thesechallenges aregetting morecomplicated indeepsub-100 nm technology nodes.