International Symposium on System-on-Chip 2010

Introduction

The history of the International Symposium on System-on-Chip dates back to 1999 when the first SoC event was organized in Tampere, Finland. It contained from the beginning almost all the elements that are characteristic to it nowadays. The event is based on a balanced mixture of

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  World-class invited presentations

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  Exhibition of state-of-the-art commercial technology

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  Contributed paper track (since 2003)

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  Industrial paper track

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  Panel discussion

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  Full-day tutorial (since 2001)

The first few events were built around a lot of invited talks by distinguished academics, people from leading companies, and from interesting start-ups in the emerging field of System-on-Chip. The industrial presentations, exhibits and a panel on timely topics in the field also have been there from day one. In 2003, SoC was turned to a full-fledged conference with also papers contributed by scientists in the field. At the same time, technical co-sponsorship was acquired from the Circuits and Systems Society of IEEE. Since that, the peer-reviewed papers have also been published in the proceedings and in IEEE Xplore database.

The mission of SoC is to provide a forum that is fully and comprehensively dedicated to SoC issues. It was the first annual event worldwide to use exclusively “SoC” in its name. Traditionally, it is the place where the academy and industry keep meeting each others. This is reflected also in the participation and sponsorship by local industry, e.g., in 2010 ST-Ericsson and Nokia were the main financial sponsors. SoC is organized by Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Department of Computer Systems. The location is anchored to Tampere – The SoC City (Figure 1). The rest of the paper will give an overview of SoC 2010.

Figure 1.

Tampere – The SoC city (© Jari Nurmi, TUT, 2003)