System Design with SystemC
You Assume, We Guarantee: Methodology and Case Studies
CAV '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
A framework for comparing models of computation
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
FPGA architecture characterization for system level performance analysis
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
A case for visualization-integrated system-level design space exploration
SAMOS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded Computer Systems: architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
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Productivity data for IC designs indicates an exponential increase in design time and cost with the number of elements that are to be included in a device. Present applications require thedevelopment of complex systems to support novel functionality. To cope with these difficulties, we need to change radically the present design methodology to allow for extensive re-use, early verification in the design cycle, pervasive use of software, and architecture-level optimization. Platform-based design as defined in [1], has these characteristics. We present the application of this methodology to a complex industrial application provided by Cypress Semiconductor. In this case study, we focus on a particular aspect of this methodology thateases considerably the verification process: successive refinement. We compare this approach versus a parallel team of designers who developed the IC using standard designapproaches.