Overview

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially according to Moore's Law, pushing technology towards the system-on-a-chip (SOC) era. However, we are increasingly experiencing a productivity gap where the chip complexity that can be handled by current design teams falls short of the possibilities offered by technological advances. Together with growing time-to-market pressures, this drives the need for innovative measures to increase design productivity by orders of magnitude. It is commonly agreed that the solutions for achieving such a leap in design productivity lie in a shift of the focus of the design process to higher levels of abstraction on the one hand, and in the massive re-use of predesigned, complex system components (intellectual property, IP) on the other hand. In order to be successful, both concepts eventually require the adoption of new languages and methodologies for system design, backed up by the availability of a corresponding set of system-level design automation tools. This book presents the SpecC system-level design language (SLDL) and the corresponding SpecC design methodology. The SpecC language is intended for specification and design of SOCs or embedded systems including software and hardware, whether using fixed platforms, integrating systems from different IPs, or synthesizing the system blocks from programming or hardware description languages. The text describes the SpecC methodology that leads designers from an executable specification to an RTL implementation through a well-defined sequence of steps. Each model is described and guidelines are given for generating these models from executable specifications. Finally, the SpecC methodology is demonstrated on an industrial-size example. The design community is now entering the system level of abstraction era and SpecC is the enabling element to achieve a paradigm shift in design culture needed for system/product design and manufacturing.

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Author:   Daniel D. Gajski ,  Jianwen Zhu ,  Rainer Dömer ,  Andreas Gerstlauer
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.440kg
ISBN:  

9780792378228

ISBN 10:   0792378229
Pages:   313
Publication Date:   31 March 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1 System Level Design Challenge.- 1.2 Related Work.- 1.3 SpecC Goals.- 1.4 Summary.- 2. Essential Issues In System Level Design.- 2.1 Models.- 2.2 Architectures.- 2.3 Languages.- 2.4 Methodology.- 2.5 Summary.- 3. The Specc Language.- 3.1 Design Considerations for System Level Design Language.- 3.2 Traditional Languages.- 3.3 The SpecC language.- 3.4 Reuse and IP.- 3.5 Reference Implementation.- 3.6 Summary.- 4. The Specc Methodology.- 4.1 Overview.- 4.2 Specification.- 4.3 Summary.- 5. System Level Design With Specc.- 5.1 GSM Enhanced Full Rate Vocoder.- 5.2 Specification.- 5.3 Architecture Exploration.- 5.4 Communication Synthesis.- 5.5 Backend.- 5.6 Summary.- 6. Conclusions.- Appendices.- A— The SpecC Language Reference Manual.- A.1 Syntax and Semantics.- A.2 Summary.- B— Vocoder Description.- B.1 C Reference Implementation Block Diagrams.- B.2 Vocoder Specification.- B.3 Specification Model.- B.4 Architecture Model.- B.5 Communication Model.- B.6 Implementation Model.

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