Components: Next Generation SSI?
Gary Smith, Principal Analyst at Dataquest writes:
``The amount of confusion within the CAD community has been the big surprise in the effort to develop System Level Integration (SLI) design methodology. … How do you design a million gate IC ? … Fortunately Kurt Keutzer gets it. The first thing we needed to know was the optimum size of a basic SLI library element. The work, at Berkeley, now tells us it’s 50,000 gates. So we have defined today’s SSI. Now the challenge is to develop the 200 to 400 basic library elements needed to really do SLI design. ‘’