Quo vadis, BTSoC (billion transistor SoC)?
Nikil D. Dutt · Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference · 2008
Billion transistor systems-on-chip (BTSoCs) present designers with a classic case of the embarrassment-of-riches syndrome: with so many devices at one's disposal, designers may be tempted to integrate functionality willy-nilly, with no strategic rethinking of what this level of integration can both afford, as well as achieve. While many advocate business-as- usual - including ad-hoc integration of functionality to achieve application-specific or domain-dependent designs. The author believes that BTSoCs present us with some opportunities for a paradigm shift in the architectural strategies and design processes for designing such complex chips. The author summarizes some key principles and ideas here.