Advances in VLSI have today enabled most systems to become compact, highly reliable and deliver data at high speed. The technological advances facilitate the designer to tailor the IC for specific applications (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). Continuing advances in VLSI technology render a billion-transistor SOC devices. However, along with this opportunity the excessive amount of power that billions of transistors will consume will be the most important challenge to the design of the future chips. Many techniques have been developed in order to reduce the power consumption of microprocessors.
Semiconductors have made real what our ancestors would consider magic. The convergence of technology with modern life has reached a state where dependence of human life on semiconductor technology is ubiquitous. Intelligent systems are revolutionizing a variety of industries to help improve energy efficiency, quality, and flexibility of systems. To achieve these superior experience massive amount of researches are ongoing in the field of algorithms, embedded HW/SW design, IP core design and SoCs.
Incredible demand on functionality in a chip in a given power/thermal envelope forcing transistor geometries go smaller which is imposing newer challenges in VLSI design and associated EDA tools/flows/methodologies., standard organizations to go over all technology enablers in an “outside-in approach to design VLSI” which includes intelligent systems design, new techniques in algorithms, HW/SW/Protocol standards, core VLSI design, EDA tools/flows/methodologies and core silicon technologies