SoC Landscape 2000+
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Average cost of a high end ASSP >$5M
- Cost of fabrication and mask making has
increased significantly ($500k+ for masks alone)
- SoC/ASIC companies look for a 5-10x return on
development costs (~ $10M revenue)
- Shorter and more uncertain product life cycles
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- Compounding Complexities limiting Time-to-Market
- Chip design complexity
- Silicon process complexity
- Context complexity
- End-to-end verification
- New “System to Silicon” methodologies are required that recognized 80% of the system development is software
Source:M.Pinto, CTO, Lucent MT