–As the integration density and complexity of the system-on-Chip (SOC) increases, the conventional interconnects are not suitable to fulfil the demands. The application of traditional network technologies in the form of Network-on-Chip is a possible solution. NoC design space has numerous variables. As an improved topology is selected complexities decrease and power-efficiency increases. In thi...

2 This paper introduces a tiny inner bladder pressure sensing system for long term ambulatory urodynamic monitoring. In order to realize this system, a small System-on-a Chip (SoC) called Medical Domain Specific SOC, Type-I (MeSOC-I) has been developed. MeSOC-I enables an inner bladder pressure sensing system to conduct more than 72 hours measurement with a small battery.

Universities are currently updating their VLSI design education offerings to cover the important needs of System-on-Chip (SoC) design. It is important to recognize that SoC is a qualitative shift in design practice: not just more of the same things, for larger and larger designs, but a need to emphasise new topics and a more systematic approach to the design process. SoC is as much or more ‘Sys...

Test access is a difficult problem encountered in the testing of core-based system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. Since embedded cores in an SOC are not directly accessible via chip inputs and outputs, special access mechanisms are required to test them at the system level. We propose test access architectures based on integer linear programming (ILP) that incorporate place-and-route constraints aris...

The design of Low Power Systems-on-Chips (SoC) in very deep submicron technologies becomes a very complex task that has to bridge very high level system description with low-level considerations due to technology defaults and variations and increasing system and circuit complexity. This paper describes the major low-level issues, such as dynamic and static power consumption, temperature, techno...

The emergence of System-on-Chip (SOC) design shows the growing popularity of the integration of multiple-processors into one chip. In this paper, we propose that high-level abstraction of parallel programming like OpenMP is suitable for chip multiprocessors. For SOCs, the heterogeneity exists within one chip such that it may have different types of multiprocessors, e.g. RISC-like processors or ...

Bioimpedance measurements are an important tool in biomedical engineering and life sciences. Bioimpedance describes the response of living tissue to an applied electrical current and allows therefore conclusions about the condition and composition of the investigated tissue. This work describes the design and development of a high accuracy Bioimpedance Measurement System (BMS), which is able to...

Grid computing technology has become the most popular and mature way of distributed computing recently. At the same time, embedded system and System-on-Chip(SoC) architecture are becoming commonly used in calculation area, because of the low design cost and extensible architecture. These new technology provides a noval way to construct grid computing infrustructure with embedded system on SoC. ...

The input buffers of the current packet-switched Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures consume a significant portion of the total power of the interconnection network. Reducing the size of input buffers would result in degraded performance, while eliminating all buffers would result in increased power at high network load. In this article, we propose DXbar: an innovative dual-crossbar design. By ...