Bruno Rouzeyre – författare

The 11 th IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, in Montpellier, France, December 3-5,2001, was a great success. The main focus was about IP Cores, Circuits and System Designs & Applications as well as SOC Design Methods and CAD. This book contains the best papers (39 among 70) that have been presented during the conference. Those papers deal with all aspects of importance for the design of the current and future integrated systems. System on Chip (SOC) design is today a big challenge for designers, as a SOC may contain very different blocks, such as microcontrollers, DSPs, memories including embedded DRAM, analog, FPGA, RF front-ends for wireless communications and integrated sensors. The complete design of such chips, in very deep submicron technologies down to 0.13 mm, with several hundreds of millions of transistors, supplied at less than 1 Volt, is a very challenging task if design, verification, debug and industrial test are considered. The microelectronic revolution is fascinating; 55 years ago, in late 1947, the transistor was invented, and everybody knows that it was by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattein, Bell Telephone Laboratories, which received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Probably, everybody thinks that it was recognized immediately as a major invention.

The current trend towards the realization of complex systems-on-chips (SOCs) requires the combined efforts and attention of experts in a wide range of areas including embedded hardware/software systems, specific IP cores, reconfigurable architectures, signal and image processing architectures, low power design techniques, design methods and CAD tools, test and verification, modelling, and timing issues. Thus the papers presented here address a wide range of SOC design topics. The text comprises of a selection of the papers presented at VLSI-SOC '01, the eleventh International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of Systems-on-Chip, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 10 / Working Group 10.5, and held in Montpellier, France in December 2001. It should prove useful reading for researchers working on microelectronics system integration, design, and CAD of integrated circuits and systems on chips.