Central Themes

Ever-Increasing Complexity
- Will require new design languages, more attune to software development but with formal, underlying semantic models for more effective verification
- Use of new approaches to system validation that make it easy to represent the “real world” environment of the design (e.g. Aptix)
- Extensive use of complex building-blocks in design (“Intellectual Property”) and accurate estimation and “floorplanning” at all levels
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