SOC Design Methodologies: IFIP TC10 / WG10.5 Eleventh International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of Systems-on-Chip (VLSI-SOC’01) December 3–5, 2001, Montpellie(90 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

The current trend towards the realization of complex systems-on-chips (SOCs) requires the combined efforts and attention of experts in a wide range of areas including embedded hardware/software systems, specific IP cores, reconfigurable architectures, signal and image processing architectures, low power design techniques, design methods and CAD tools, test and verification, modelling, and timing issues. Thus the papers presented here address a wide range of SOC design topics. The text comprises of a selection of the papers presented at VLSI-SOC '01, the eleventh International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of Systems-on-Chip, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 10 / Working Group 10.5, and held in Montpellier, France in December 2001. It should prove useful reading for researchers working on microelectronics system integration, design, and CAD of integrated circuits and systems on chips.

Table of Contents:
Architecture for Signal & Image Processing.- Two ASIC for Low and Middle Levels of Real Time Image Processing.- 64 × 64 Pixels General Purpose Digital Vision Chip.- A Vision System on Chip for Industrial Control.- Fast Recursive Implementation of the Gaussian Filter.- Dynamically Re-configurable Architectures.- A Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture for Low-Power Multimedia Terminals.- Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures for Digital Signal Processing Applications.- Reconfigurable Architecture Using High Speed FPGA.- CAD Tools.- Design Technology for Systems-on-Chip.- Distributed Collaborative Design over Cave2 Framework.- High Performance Java Hardware Engine and Software Kernel for Embedded Systems.- An Object-Oriented Methodology for Modeling the Precise Behavior of Processor Architectures.- Interconnect Capacitance Modelling in a VDSM CMOS Technology.- IP Design & Reuse.- Abstract Communication Model and Automatic Interface generation for IP integration in Hardware/Software Co-design.- An Evolutionary Approach for Pareto-optimal Configurations in SOC Platforms.- Design of a Branch-Based Carry-Select Adder IP Portable in 0.25 ?m Bulk and Silicon-On-Insulator CMOS Technologies.- High Level Design Methodologies.- A Standardized Co-simulation Backbone.- Automatic Code-Transformation and Architecture Refinement for Application-Specific Multiprocessor SoCs with Shared Memory.- Power Issues.- Modeling Power Dynamics for an Embedded DSP Processor Core. An Empirical Model.- Power Consumption Model for the DSP OAK Processor.- Design for Specific Constraints.- Integration of Robustness in the Design of a Cell.- Impact of Technology Spreading on MEMS design Robustness.- Architectures.- A New Efficient VLSI Architecture for Full Search Block Matching Motion Estimation.-Design Considerations of a Low-Complexity, Low-Power Integer Turbo Decoder.- Low Power, Low Voltage.- Low-Voltage Embedded-RAM Technology: Present and Future.- Low-Voltage 0,25 ?m CMOS Improved Power Adaptive Issue Queue for Embedded Microprocessors.- Gate Sizing for Low Power Design.- Timing Issues.- Modeling and Design of Asynchronous Priority Arbiters for On-Chip Communication Systems.- Feasible Delay Bound Definition.- Advance in Mixed Signal.- CMOS Mixed-signal Circuits Design on a Digital Array Using Minimum Transistors.- A VHDL-AMS Case Study: The Incremental Design of an Efficient 3rd Generation MOS Model of a Deep Sub Micron Transistor.- Verification & Validation.- Speeding Up Verification of RTL Designs by Computing One-to-one Abstractions with Reduced Signal Widths.- Functional Test Generation using Constraint Logic Programming.- Test.- An Industrial Approach to Core-Based System Chip Testing.- Power-Constrained Test Scheduling for SoCs Under a “no session” Scheme.- Random Adjacent Sequences: An Efficient Solution for Logic BIST.- On-chip Generator of a Saw-Tooth Test Stimulus for ADC BIST.- Built-in Test of Analog Non-Linear Circuits in a SOC Environment.- Sensors.- Design of a Fast CMOS APS Imager for High Speed Laser Detections.- Noise optimisation of a piezoresistive CMOS MEMS for magnetic field sensing.- Authors Index.- Keywords Index.