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With the new level of integration
enabled by SoC technology, design architecture has become
more complex than ever. Signal integrity, IR drop, noise margin,
and cross-talk have become significant issues, and timing
closure is taking much longer. IP preparation also takes time
and cost has become a major concern for fabless customers.
In the mean time, customers' time-to-market requirements remain
unchanged!
Therefore, a thorough understanding of system requirements
is crucial for offering SoC design solutions. UMC has its
own dedicated team of system architecture experts to help
address the issues our customers face when developing their
SoC designs.
Our experts assist in discussing:
Partition between digital & analog, on-chip & off-chip
Trade-off between hardware and software
Power management from a system point of view
System cost implications
Overall system performance
Process technology, IP and package requirements
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