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TITLE: Job Skills Needed for Future Designs
In a recent presentation, Prof. Jan Rabaey of the University of
California at Berkeley described how the electronics industry is
entering a new era in which which embedded processors must
function increasingly asynchronously, must adapt spontaneously to
data errors and bypass expensive manufacturing processes. ASIC
design starts are expected to continue to decline as mask costs
exceed $1M for 90-nanometer designs while programmable platforms
(e.g. Xilinx VirtexII-Pro) are becoming more popular. Thus,
embedded system programmers who are experienced with C, SystemC
and real-time operating systems may soon out number traditional
IC designers. Prof. Rabaey advocates that it will be more
important to create and program malleable architectures than to
build high-performance architectures with limited functions and
programming difficulties.
For additional information, access: Prof. Rabaey
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Job Skills Needed for Future Designs
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DATE: May 2004
TITLE: Job Skills Needed for Future Designs
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