As we continue miniaturization of circuits into nano-scale, interconnects have been recognized as the limiting factor for next generation of computing structures. To increase the density of integration many approaches have been proposed such as System on Chip (SoC), System in Package (SIP), and Networks on Chip (NoC)which all must address the interconnect issue address. Current approaches to So...

While most of the past research in the field of Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoC) has been dedicated to increasing the available processing power on a chip, less effort has been dedicated to analyze their system-level performance, or to predict their behavior. This paper introduces PAM-SoC, a performance predictor for MPSoCs system-level performance, based on adapting Pamela, a performance...

Test access is a major problem for system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. Since embedded cores in an SOC are not directly accessible via chip I/Os, special access mechanisms are required to test them after system integration. An efficient test access architecture should reduce test cost and time-to-market by minimizing test application time. We address several issues related to the design of test acce...

The excessively high temperature in a chip may cause circuit malfunction and performance degradation, and thus should be avoided to improve system reliability. In this paper, a novel oscillation-based onchip thermal sensing architecture for dynamically adjusting supply voltage and clock frequency in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is proposed. It is shown that the oscillation frequency of a ring oscilla...

The technology today makes it possible to integrate a complete system on a single chip, called “System-on-Chip” (SOC). Nowadays SOC designers use previously designed hardware modules, called cores, together with their user defined logic (UDL), to form a complete system on a single chip. The manufacturing process may result in defect chips, for instance due to the base material, and therefore te...

System on chip (SoC) is the integration of different components in to a single chip targeting a specific application. Real-time observability of the internal chip signals is crucial to SoC debugging, the obvious choice would be to use chip pins to observe them. However, this method is difficult to implement in the presence of high frequency internal clocks and limitation of the chip pins. A sol...

There is a growing demand for solutions which allow the design of large and complex reconfigurable Systems-onChip (SoC) at high abstraction levels. The Gannet project proposes a functional programming approach for high-abstraction design of very large SoCs. Gannet is a distributed service-based SoC architecture, i.e. a network of services offered by hardware or software cores. The Gannet SoC is...

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SOC) is the term used for a fully integrated circuit (IC), where few if any additional electronic components are required to make a complete system. The term has had many and varied definitions over time. Today, a typical SOC IC can be anything from a complex mixed-signal product, where a wide range of functionality such as RF, analog, power management, and digital coexist on-ch...

of the Thesis SIMPRESS: A Simulator Generation Environment for System-on-Chip Exploration by Asheesh Khare Master of Science in Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine, 1999 Professor Nikil D. Dutt, Chair Designing Systems-On-Chip (SOC) involves designing embedded applications using customizable embedded processor cores, novel on-chip/o -chip memory hierarchies and hig...

The number of integrated transistors that can be contained on a chip are increasing at an exponential rate, along with rise in targeted sophisticated applications. Thus the design of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) is becoming more and more complex. Hence there is a critical need to find new seamless methodologies and tools to handle the SoC co-design aspects. This paper presents a novel approach for exp...