EMERGING TRENDS IN VLSI AND EMBEDDED SYSTEM

EMERGING TRENDS IN VLSI AND EMBEDDED SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

VLSI – the term stands for “very large scale integration” which literally means packing more and more logical devices in smaller and smaller areas. The electronics industry has achieved a phenomenal growth over the last two decades, mainly due to the rapid advances in integration technologies, large-scale systems design - in short, due to the advent of VLSI.

The number of applications of integrated circuits in high-performance computing, telecommunications, and consumer electronics has been rising steadily, and at a very fast pace. Typically, the required computational power or intelligence of these applications is the driving force for the fast development of this field. 

 VLSI has been around for a long time, there is nothing new about it ... but as a side effect of advances in the world of computers, there has been a dramatic proliferation of tools that can be used to design VLSI circuits. Alongside, the capability of an IC has increased exponentially over the years, in terms of computation power, utilization of available area, yield.

The combined effect of these two advances is that people can now put diverse functionality into the IC's, opening up new frontiers, of which development of the “embedded systems” could be stated as the most remarkable achievement! 

These are very  intelligent devices are put inside everyday objects, and ubiquitous computing where small computing devices proliferate to such an extent that even the shoes you wear may actually do something useful like monitoring your heartbeats!
These two fields are kind of related, and getting into their description can easily lead to another article.             

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