Non-Technical Issues in SOC Design

It is not just technical challenges that confront designers of complex SoC devices. There are many organizational and management challenges as well. In this chapter we discuss structural, organizational, communications and other non-technical challenges and issues that SoC designers must face. These include the fundamental concepts of interfaces: between design groups, between hardware and software, between system designers and implementers, and between design and manufacturing. We conclude with a detailed discussion of foundry interfaces.