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Research and development of system-on-chip tip design technology
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June 12, 2001
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[Summary]
Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) receives the consignment about "research and development of system-on-chip(*1) tip design technology" as a national project from NEDO(*2), builds the joint research development organization in this technical field for the first time in the industrial world, and is promoting research and development.
(*1) System-on-chip: It abbreviates to SoC hereafter.
(*2) NEDO: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
[Contents]
This research and development make a core system called VCDS(*3), and are realized by developing the following technology.
(1) With system specification definition technology, the rapid prototyping in a system level is made possible, and SoC design specification can be checked in an early design stage.
(2) With architecture generation technology, the automatic design of the architecture which a professional architect was designing is enabled conventionally.
(3) Compound concrete design description of V core automatically with hard / software V core generation technology.
(4) With a system function and performance verification technology, cooperation verification of high-speed hardware/software is enabled. Moreover, realize a testability design and enable to shorten test time drastically.
(5) With V core platform technology, simplify development of design property (V core), and reuse, and improve development efficiency sharply.
(*3)VCDS:Virtual Core based Design System
[Feature]
By putting the concept of V core into the upper design of SoC, the design technology which enables reuse of design property is established, and design automation of SoC is enabled.
[Effect]
In the upper design of SoC, design property is accumulated as a V core and easy reuse is attained. Moreover, reusing V core and by automating an upper design using VCDS, the design of SoC becomes easy and improvement in large design efficiency of it is attained.
- 2005 20 times over the past (90% of rates of reuse of design property)
- 2010 100 times over the past (99% of rates of reuse of design property)
[Former]
About the upper design of SoC, neither reuse technology nor automation technology has been established. About RT level, IP reuse and automation technology have just been going to prevail.
[Plan]
The second half of 2002: The demonstration of a VCDS functional limited edition prototype is possible.
The second half of 2004: Evaluation of the VCDS full functional version prototype is possible.
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