Today, everywhere we turn, we hear speakers give presentations at conferences and industry events despairing how the rise in silicon design costs is hampering the semiconductor industry's growth path. As part of this problem, we now recognize that software design costs have eclipsed silicon design efforts and have become the largest portion of the SoC creation effort. In addition, IP integration costs are now rising as more discrete IP blocks are infused into SoC designs today. The design landscape has also changed due to rising design complexity and lengthening design cycle times, especially in the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) market. These changes are having an impact on the SoC Design Start market delaying and preventing, to some degree, the architectural refreshes silicon designers undertake periodically to bring their solutions into line with changing market requirements and rising customer expectations. Semico Research Corp has looked at these issues and their impact on SoC silicon and software design cost efforts and encapsulated these changes and trends in a new report titled: SoC Silicon and Software Design Cost Analysis: Costs for Higher Complexity Continue to Rise (SC102-13). Forecasts for SoC silicon design costs and software design costs are given from the 90nm node out through the 10nm node focusing on Advanced Performance Multicore SoCs, Value Multicore SoCs and Basic SoCs. Categories of effort with definitions for silicon and software designs are established with a forecast given at each node for the three types of SoC silicon. A forecast for Derivative SoC design costs at the 28nm node from 2011 through 2017 is also given. This is a 'must-have' report for managers, SoC designers and silicon architects concerned with rising design costs and their impact on the market at large. Some of the data discussed in 58 pages with 15 tables and 33 graphs are:
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