Challenges of Digital Consumer and Mobile SoC's: More Moore Possible?

Summary form only given. Digital consumer and mobile products have continuously accommodated more features and functions. For example, recent high-end cellular phones work as multi-modal wireless communicators that handle various formats; GSM, 3G, BT, WiFi and so on. In addition, they also operate as terrestrial digital TV viewers, MP3 music players, digital cameras, substitutes for credit cards, GPS locators and many more. These products require to best combine highly integrated SoC's and sophisticated software stacks in a timely manner. It is essential to establish a hardware/software co-design/verification environment with an ESL design methodologies. Another key is an IP reuse platform where various functions can be implemented on an SoC by legacy sub-systems with a low-power multi-processor architecture. These challenges are getting more complicated in deep sub-100 nm technology nodes.