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With the move to 130-nanometer, and even 90-nm designs, new options in system-level integration are opening up. A system-on-chip a couple of years ago might have been no more than [...]

In applications that range from DSL terminations to network switch fabrics, the quest for integration has led designers to put high-speed serial interfaces onto their system-level chips. Often this is [...]

In many ways, the ability to integrate high-speed serial I/O drivers and receivers onto a system-level IC is a godsend. But more often than not, this particular gift is blessed [...]

Reconfigurable computing is one of those technologies that seems to dwell in never-never land, where pirates are fought (successfully) and treasures are found (without taxes). It always glimmers with promise. [...]

Intellectual-property (IP) reuse has been presented to the system-on-chip design community as one of those things, like two hours of exercise and 18 glasses of water a day, that you [...]

Lack of differentiation has been a deadly problem inherent to system-on-chip-based wireless devices. Interoperability and regulatory requirements constrain the design of terminals and basestations to a quite narrow range of [...]

With integration encompassing not just the logic for a communications chip but also the physical-layer (PHY) analog components, a lot of things get more complicated. It's easy to anticipate the [...]

Choosing the right process is getting to be a difficult step in IC design. That's ironic, because not that long ago the choice of process for a new IC was [...]

Among the applications that still hold a glimmer of promise for some eventual volume sales, small-office, home-office (Soho) networking equipment-in particular, function-specific network appliances-are interesting. Because of the size of [...]

In the increasingly frantic search for the next big thing, attention is shifting toward the notion of the wideband, wireless, graphics-capable handheld device. There seem to be two really interesting [...]

With the drive toward higher integration, some pro-cesses change. In particular, mixed-signal PHY and high-speed MAC functions that were acquired by selecting an off-the-shelf IC now have to be hunted [...]

Design-for-test is approaching that buzz-phrase never-never land in which designers get tired of hearing about it before they get around to doing anything with it. Recent estimates warn that only [...]

Driven by the impracticality of point-to-point, we're about to see interconnect inside complex ICs begin to look less like bundles of wires and more like networks. But the way this [...]

The need for more digital signal-processing power in wireless transceivers is growing. Comb filters for broadband CDMA, beam-forming algorithms for antenna optimization and multipath rejection, even bit recoding to reduce [...]

Focuses on the challenges in choosing integrated circuit designs in telecommunication. Benefits of greater integration, higher performance and lower power; Dependence of IC design on projected volume; Characterization of digital logic.

Focuses on the concept of a wideband, wireless, graphics-capable handheld device. System partitioning problem presented by the mobile graphics handset to system-on-chip designers; Resolution of the mobile's conflict through block sharing.

Describes the use of systems on a chip for radio frequency test systems. Analog self-test and self-calibration systems; Developments in telecommunication systems.