Weerasekera, Roshan and Zheng, Li-Rong and Pamunuwa, Dinesh B. and Tenhunen, Hannu (2007) Extending systems-on-chip to the third dimension : performance, cost and technological tradeoffs. In: Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) :. IEEE, San Jose, California, pp. 212-219. ISBN 978-1-4244-1382-9
Abstract
Because of the today's market demand for high-performance, high-density portable hand-held applications, electronic system design technology has shifted the focus from 2-D planar SoC single-chip solutions to different alternative options as tiled silicon and single-level embedded modules as well as 3-D integration. Among the various choices, finding an optimal solution for system implementation dealt usually with cost, performance and other technological trade-off analysis at the system conceptual level. It has been identified that the decisions made within the first 20% of the total design cycle time will ultimately result up to 80% of the final product cost. In this paper, we discuss appropriate and realistic metric for performance and cost trade-off analysis both at system conceptual level (up-front in the design phase) and at implementation phase for verification in the three-dimensional integration. In order to validate the methodology, two ubiquitous electronic systems are analyzed under various implementation schemes and discuss the pros and cons of each of them.