System Design: A Practical Guide with SpecC presents the system design
flow following a simple example through the whole process in an
easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion. Each step is described in detail
in pictorial form and with code examples in SpecC. For each picture
slide a detailed explanation is provided of the concepts presented. This
format is suited for tutorials, seminars, self-study, as a guided
reference carried by examples, or as teaching material for courses on
system design.
Features:
- Comprehensive introduction to and description of the SpecC language
and design methodology;
- IP-centric language and methodology with focus on design reuse;
- Complete framework for system-level design from specification to
implementation for SOCs and other embedded HW/SW systems.
System Design: A Practical Guide with SpecC will benefit designers and
design managers of complex SOCs, or embedded systems in general, by
allowing them to develop new methodologies from these results, in order
to increase design productivity by orders of magnitude. Designers at
RTL, logical or physical levels, who are interested in moving up to the
system level, will find a comprehensive overview within. The design
models in the book define IP models and functions for IP exchange
between IP providers and their users. A well-defined methodology like
the one presented in this book will help product planning divisions to
quickly develop new products or to derive completely new business
models, like e-design or product-on-demand. Finally, researchers and
students in the area of system design will find an example of a formal,
well-structured design flow in this book.
