ABSTRACT
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores. The SoC system driver section of the“International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors [1]”predicts that the number of processor cores will increase fourfold per technology node in order to match the processing demands of the corresponding applications. Typical multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC) applications such as network processors, multimedia hubs, and base-band telecom circuits have particularly tight time-to-market and performance constraints that require a very efficient design cycle.
