This book is the second of two volumes addressing the design challenges associated with new generations of semiconductor technology. The various chapters are compiled from tutorials presented at workshops in recent years by prominent authors from all over the world. Technology, productivity and quality are the main aspects under consideration to establish the major requirements for the design and test of upcoming systems on a chip.

"Design of Systems on a Chip: Design and Test is the second of two volumes addressing the design challenges associated with new generations of the semiconductor technology. The various chapters are the compilations of tutorials presented at workshops in the recent years by prominent authors from all over the world. Technology, productivity and quality are the main aspects under consideration to establish the major requirements for the design and test of upcoming systems on a chip. In particular this second book include contributions on three different, but complementary axes: core design, computer-aided design tools and test methods. A collection of chapters deal with the heterogeneity aspect of core designs, showing the diversity of parts that may share the same substrate in a state-of-the-art system on a chip. The second part of the book discusses CAD in three different levels of design abstraction, from system level to physical design. The third part deals with test methods. The topic is addressed from different viewpoints: in terms of chip complexity, test is discussed from the core and system prospective; in terms of signal heterogeneity, the digital, mixed-signal and microsystem prospective are considered. TOC:Design of Systems on a Chip: Introduction.- Microsystems Technology and Applications.- Core Architectures for Digital Media and the Associated Compilation Techniques.- Past, Present and Future of Microprocessors.- Physical Design Automation.- Behavioral Synthesis: an Overview.- Hardware/Software co-design.- Test and Design-for-Test: from Circuits to Integrated Systems.- Synthesis of FPGAs and Testable ASICs.- Testable Design and Testing of Microsystems.- Embedded Core-based System-on-Chip Test Strategies."

Design of Systems on a Chip.- Microsystems Technology and Applications.- Core Architectures for Digital Media and the Associated Compilation Techniques.- Past, Present and Future of Microprocessors.- Physical Design Automation.- Behavioral Synthesis: an Overview.- Hardware/Software co-design.- Test and Design-for-Test: from Circuits to Integrated Systems.- Synthesis of FPGAs and Testable ASICs.- Testable Design and Testing of Microsystems.- Embedded Core-based System-on-Chip Test Strategies.