EITC-2004, SoC Track Workshop Objectives

Driven by the rapid growth of the Internet, telecommunication system, wireless technology, pervasive computing, consumer electronics, and multimedia applications, the integration of an entire VLSI system board onto a single silicon chip has become increasingly important in today's networked world.

The proliferation of system-on-chip (SoC) devices is further evidenced by the ubiquity of cell phones, DVD players, and digital cameras, which brought revolutionary changes to the IT industry.

The system-on-chip track of EITC-2004 provides a forum for sharing recent advances in system-on-chip design and discussing new challenges in the development of SoC manufacturing technology, system infrastructure, design methodology, and design automation tools.

It is our goal to bring together SoC experts from both the academics and industry to address the critical hardware and software design issues, such as power management, signal processing and security applications, embedded memory and processor cores, the validation and reuse of intellectual property (IP), platform-based design with common architectures, and reconfigurable systems.

The successful implementation and integration of these key building blocks will enable us to develop important SoC applications in the future with increased productivity and reduced cost.