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The analysis of important power and temperature metrics for chip design is becoming increasingly inefficient when attempted at the register-transfer level. The article proposes the fundamentals of a system-level modeling | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC, Low Power, Thermal | Issue: June 2010 | No Comments
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One year after the publication of a draft, the analog and mixed-signal (AMS) extensions to SystemC AMS will be issued as a standard at the Design Automation and Test in | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: March 2010 | No Comments
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The verification, test and debug of SystemC models can be undertaken at an early stage in the design process. To support these techniques, the SystemC Verification Library uses a concept | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: December 2009 | No Comments
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For two decades, the benefits of ESL and abstractions have been supposedly confined to engineers working on digital designs and to system architects. Analog and mixed-signal (AMS) design has largely | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: September 2009 | No Comments
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The article describes a methodology that bridges the gap between SystemC transaction-level models (TLMs) that are used for architectural exploration and SystemC cycle-accurate models of hardware that typically follow much | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: June 2009 | No Comments
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The article describes how a methodology based around scalable transaction level modeling (TLM) techniques can be used to enable software design to begin far earlier in a design fl ow | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: June 2009 | No Comments
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The paper describes several innovative modifications to standard design flows that enable new device technologies to be rapidly assessed at the system level. Cell libraries from these rapid flows are | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: March 2009 | No Comments
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Software accounts for more than half the development cost for a complex system-on-chip (SoC) platform at the 45nm process node or below. The availability of fundamental software such as compilers, | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: December 2008 | No Comments
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SystemC AMS extensions introduce new language constructs for the design of embedded analog/mixed-signal systems. This paper presents the novel modeling language for analog and mixed-signal functions that supports design and | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: September 2008 | No Comments
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Electronic system level (ESL) is typically defined as design above the register transfer level (RTL). When applied to hardware design, ESL is the process of describing hardware functionality at higher | more...
Topics/Categories: ESL/SystemC | Issue: June 2008 | No Comments