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Chapter 1 1. INTRODUCTION The semiconductor industry is doing well, with worldwide sales in the year 2003 grossing an approximate 180 billion USD—30 percent of which came from microprocessors, DSPs, microcontrollers, and programmable peripheral chips [1]. A recent forecast by Dataquest predicts an estimated 200+ billion USD in semiconductor sales by the end of the year 2004 [130]. Along with these huge market opportunities, however, has come an increase in system design complexity. It is estimated that by the year 2010 the expected transistor count for typical System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions will approach 3 billion, with corresponding expected clock speeds of over 100 GHz, and transistor densities reaching 660 million transistors/cm2 [2]. Concurrently, this increase in complexity will result in an increase in power dissipation, cost, and the “design-to-market” time. In [2] it is argued that computer products will eventually progress from large, general-purpose, impersonal static forms to portable, personal, flexible, market-targeted forms. Personalization, flexibility, and quick time to market will dictate a “quickturn” design approach. Time-to-market for new platforms will no longer be measured in years, but in months or weeks. Design cycle must decrease or become the bottleneck for future progress and may determine which corporation survives and
Published: Jan 1, 2005
Keywords: Unify Modeling Language; Object Constraint Language; Unify Modeling Language Modeling; Unify Modeling Language Profile; Platform Domain
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