NDLI: A system design revolution (Panel Session)

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Clark, James H.
Abstract	System design is undergoing radical changes that are significant both for the graphics community and for other design communities in which the principal hardware resources are those obtained via catalogues of parts. The drive to reduce system costs forces us to design at the lowest level possible, i.e., on silicon; only in this way can we reduce the number of packaged components, thereby reducing the number of interconnecting wires, board space and power requirements. This, in turn, presents a system design dilemma. The large cost of designing silicon systems, i.e. VLSI, conflicts with the need to design them to reduce cost. As a result, novel new design aids are being devised that actually make integrated system design easier than conventional system design; integrated systems can be thoroughly simulated because simple models of them exist at every level of representation. By providing the system designer with lower-level design primitives, significant new architectures, such as the Geometry Engine and Image Memory Processor, will be the result. Semiconductor companies cannot make system design decisions for every area of application; only the system designer understands the application area well enough to make the correct decisions. The traditional semiconductor industry must make a transition from offering packaged system building blocks to offering fabrication services to the designers who know how to design systems.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	82
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897910451
DOI	10.1145/800224.806792
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-08-03
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text

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