White Paper Overview

Burgeoning complexity, both in systems-on-chip (SoCs) and in the embedded systems they enable, poses a challenge for the semiconductor industry. Electronics today are not only increasingly pervasive and complex, but they are also mission-critical.

This paper outlines the multi-dimensional nature of this complexity and the costs and opportunities it generates. It also demonstrates that the key to designers meeting this challenge is the ability to attain system-level visibility: both during the semiconductor development cycle, and subsequently after embedded systems are deployed in the field.