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In the last two decades, the semiconductor industry has been driven by hypes of different applications, from PC, network equipment, and telecommunication to trendy products in current consumer electronic market. These applications are driving the need for higher IC complexity, stronger performance (processing frequency) and lower power consumption. On IC manufacturing side, the wafer fabrication processing is being targeted at ultra deep-submicron level, such as 0.13um or even 90nm. However, the IC power consumption problems become severe.
Meeting all the above criteria in System-on-Chip (SoC) designs has become a very challenging task for most IC chip makers nowadays. Particularly for portable devices that are driving current consumer electronics market, a SoC with good low-power control is very critical now. |
