ABSTRACT
With this viewpoint of continued process evolution leading to ever-increasing levels of integration into ever-more-complex SoC devices, the issue of an SoC being a single chip at any particular point in time is somewhat moot. Rather, the word “system” in SoC is more important than “chip.” What is most important about an SoC whether packaged as a single chip, or integrated chipset, (thus, Systemon-Chipset) or System-in-Package or System-on-Package is that it is designed as an integrated system, making design trade-os across the processing domains and across the individual chip and package boundaries.
