Architecture, memory and interface technology integration of an industrial/ academic configurable system-on-chip (CSoC)

Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 107-112

  Becker, Jürgen ^a   Vorbach, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PACT XPP Technologies AG ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuits; Bridges; Computer architecture; Computer Society; Hardware; Master slave; Random access memory; Read write memory; System on a chip; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BRIDGES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNICATION INTERFACE; CONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT GRANULARITIES; INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY; MASTER SLAVE; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; SYSTEM ON A CHIP;

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

EID: 84942036117     PISSN: 21593469     EISSN: 21593477     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISVLSI.2003.1183360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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