State-of-the-art in rapid prototyping

This tutorial gives an overview of state-of-the-art rapid prototyping techniques and their enabling technologies. After presenting a taxonomy for the plethora of existing approaches some example prototyping systems and case studies are discussed. With this, the benefits of the emerging new class of system-level prototyping approaches as efficient validation method for future microelectronic systems which have to cope with increasing complexity and tighter time-to-market constraints should be pointed out.