Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

13.1. Toward a 21st-Century SOC Design Strategy

The organization that perhaps pays more attention to chip-level system-design-strategies than any other in the world is the ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors). The ITRS assesses all semiconductor technology requirements (for design, manufacturing, and reliability) to ensure continued global advancements in integrated circuit performance. This assessment, which produces a new industry road map every two years, is a worldwide cooperative effort of the industry’s manufacturers and suppliers, government organizations, consortia, and universities. It is the way that the semiconductor industry has chosen to map the route for the continued enforcement of Moore’s law.

The ITRS continually ...