Changeset 356 for anr/section-issues.tex

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Feb 6, 2011, 2:29:09 PM (13 years ago)

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coach

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1ere Pre-release

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• anr/section-issues.tex (modified) (6 diffs)

anr/section-issues.tex

@@ -19 +19 @@
 Industrial              & 1,102  & 1,228   & 1,406 \\
 High end                & 177    & 188     & 207 \\\hline
-Military/Aereo          & 566    & 636     & 717 \\
+Military/Aeronautic     & 566    & 636     & 717 \\
 High end                & 56     & 65      & 82 \\\hline\hline
 Total FPGA/PLD          & 4,659  & 5,015   & 5,583 \\
@@ -28 +28 @@
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 Microelectronic components allow integration of complex functions into products, increases
-commercial attractivity of these products and improves their competitivity.
+commercial attractiveness of these products and improves their competitiveness.
 \cite{rapport-ministere} estimates a 7\% growth of the micro-electronic market until 2015 at least.
 Multimedia and communication sectors have taken advantage from microelectronics facilities
-thanks to the developpment of design methodologies and tools for embedded systems.
-Unfortunately, the Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs involded in the design
+thanks to the development of design methodologies and tools for embedded systems.
+Unfortunately, the Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs involved in the design
 and manufacturing of ASICs is very high.
 An IC foundry costs several billions of euros and the fabrication of a specific circuit
 costs several millions. For example a conservative estimate for a 65nm ASIC project is 10
-million \$ . Consequently, it is more and more unaffordable to design and fabricate ASICs for low and medium 
+millions \$. Consequently, it is more and more unaffordable to design and fabricate ASICs for low and medium 
 volume markets and the new trend for building the new generation products will be multi processors SoCs and 
-programmable logic for co-processsing.
+programmable logic for co-processing.
 \\
 According to a market survey (J-M. Chery, CTO ST Microelectronics at European NanoelectronicsForum 2010), 
-the global growth is 30 billon\$ between 2009-2013 for the multimedia and communication sectors; this is 
+the global growth is 30 billion\$ between 2009-2013 for the multimedia and communication sectors; this is 
 6 times more than all other domains like security, home automation or health.
-The predominance of the multimedia and communication sectors are due to their being predominently a mass market.
+The predominance of the multimedia and communication sectors are due to their being predominantly a mass market.
 %
 \subsubsection*{FPGAs and Embedded Systems}
@@ -54 +54 @@
 choice for low-to-medium volume applications. 
 Since their introduction in the mid eighties, FPGAs evolved from a simple, 
-low-capacity gate array to devices (\altera STRATIX III, \xilinx Virtex V) that
+low-capacity gate array to devices (\altera STRATIX III, \xilinx Virtex6) that
 provide a mix of coarse-grained data path units, memory blocks, microprocessor cores, 
 on chip A/D conversion, and gate counts by millions. This high logic capacity allows to implement
@@ -73 +73 @@
 architectures and algorithms. These companies show up in different "traditional" applications and market 
 segments like computing clusters (ad-hoc), servers and storage, networking and Telecom, ASIC 
-emulation and prototyping, military/aereo etc. The HPC market size is estimated today by FPGA providers 
+emulation and prototyping, military/aeronautic etc. The HPC market size is estimated today by FPGA providers 
 at 214\,M\$. 
 This market is dominated by Multi-core CPUs and GPUs based solutions and the expansion
@@ -92 +92 @@
 \begin{center}\begin{minipage}{.9\linewidth}\textit{
 The aim of the COACH project is to integrate all these design steps into a single design framework
-and to allow \textbf{pure software} developpers to design embedded systems.
+and to allow \textbf{pure software} developers to design embedded systems.
 }\end{minipage}\end{center}
 %
@@ -98 +98 @@
 on Field Programmable Gate Array circuits (FPGA).
 Its aim is to propose solutions to the societal/economical challenges by
-providing SMEs novel design capabilities enabling them to increase their
-design productivity with design exploration and synthesis methods that are placed on top 
-of the state-of-the-art methods.
-We believe that the combination of a design environment dedicated to software developpers
+providing industrials using FPGAs and in particular SMEs novel design
+capabilities enabling them to increase their design productivity with design
+exploration and synthesis methods that are placed on top of the state-of-the-art
+methods.
+We believe that the combination of a design environment dedicated to software developers
 and FPGA targets,
 will allow small and even very small companies to propose embedded system and accelerating solutions