ECSI Institute Workshop on Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip, Paris, Frankreich

This event organised by ECSI, TU München and OFFIS is one of the series of workshops that address advanced topics in system design&#046;<br>This time the focus is on reconfigurable Systems&#8211;on&#8211;Chip&#046; <b>Keywords:</b> Technology parameter variations<br>With 45 nm and below, dopant distributions and oxide thickness variations will strongly influence electrical parameters of transistors&#046; Consequently, delay times will vary, timing limits may be missed, crosstalk sensitivity will increase, and yield will suffer dramatically&#046;<br>Transient errors<br>Alpha particle radiation is a well known problem in today’s DRAM memories, and it is beginning to bother FPGA and ASIC designs, as well&#046; Future technologies will suffer increasingly from radiation induced transient errors in logic circuits and registers&#046;<br>Rapidly changing applications<br>In many fields, like communications and information security, applications and standards are evolving continuously&#046; Software updates may not be sufficient to keep devices in the market, but hardware redesigns are quite expensive, due to increasing mask costs for ASICs&#046;<br>Adaptive devices<br>In a mobile society, more and more devices need to continuously adapt to changing environments&#046; Such mode switches require more than just software based changes but also adaptation of the application specific hardware components&#046; New technologies offer partial reconfiguration at runtime but current design practices hardly exploit these capabilities&#046;