While process technologists are obsessed to follow Moore´s curve down to nanoscale dimensions, design technologists are confronted with gigascale complexity required for the smart objects of the ambient-intelligence world of tomorrow. This world requires zero cost, zero energy yet software programmable novel system architectures to be sold in huge volumes and be designed in exponentially decreasing time. What are these novel silicon architectures? What challenges in research does this create? How to create the necessary tools and skills and how to organise research and education in a world driven by shareholders value? Let us try to make some educated guesses about these questions.
Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 45, 06/2003
Pages: 310