System Design

A Practical Guide with SpecC

By: Andreas Gerstlauer, Rainer DÃ¶mer, Junyu Peng

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Hardcover | 31 May 2001

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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.
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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.

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Table of Contents	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgment	p. xiii
The SpecC Language	p. 1
Outline	p. 2
Introduction	p. 3
Computational Models	p. 5
Finite State Machine	p. 6
Data Flow Graph	p. 7
Finite State Machine with Datapath	p. 8
Super-State Finite State Machine with Datapath	p. 9
Hierarchical Concurrent Finite State Machine	p. 10
Program State Machine	p. 11
The SpecC Model	p. 12
Traditional Model	p. 12
SpecC Model	p. 14
Protocol Inlining	p. 15
Plug-and-Play with Computation	p. 17
Plug-and-Play with Communication	p. 22
System-level Language Requirements	p. 26
Language Goals	p. 26
Language Requirements	p. 28
The SpecC Language	p. 29
Foundation	p. 29
Types	p. 33
Structural Hierarchy	p. 35
Behavioral Hierarchy	p. 38
Finite State Machine Execution	p. 40
Pipeline Execution	p. 41
Communication	p. 45
Synchronization	p. 48
Exception Handling	p. 51
Timing	p. 53
Library Support	p. 57
Persistent Annotation	p. 58
Summary and Conclusion	p. 60
Summary	p. 60
Conclusion	p. 61
Further Information	p. 62
Modeling and Design with SpecC	p. 63
Outline	p. 64
Introduction	p. 65
Abstraction Levels	p. 66
Design Flow	p. 69
SpecC Methodology	p. 71
Specification Model	p. 72
Specification Model Example	p. 73
Communication versus Computation	p. 76
Architecture Refinement	p. 80
Behavior Partitioning	p. 82
Variable Partitioning	p. 91
Execution Time	p. 97
Scheduling	p. 99
Architecture Model	p. 104
Communication Synthesis	p. 106
Channel Partitioning	p. 108
Protocol Insertion	p. 116
IP Components	p. 138
Protocol Inlining	p. 142
Communication Model	p. 151
Backend	p. 152
Hardware Synthesis	p. 154
Software Synthesis	p. 157
Interface Synthesis	p. 160
Implementation Model Example	p. 167
Implementation Model	p. 171
Summary and Conclusions	p. 172
Design of a GSM Vocoder	p. 175
Outline	p. 176
Introduction	p. 177
GSM Vocoder Standard	p. 178
Specification Model	p. 179
Encoding Hierarchy	p. 180
Profiling	p. 181
Architecture Exploration	p. 182
Estimation	p. 183
Architecture Model	p. 185
Communication Synthesis	p. 186
Communication Model	p. 187
Backend	p. 188
Implementation Model	p. 190
Summary and Conclusions	p. 191
Design of a JBIG Encoder	p. 193
Outline	p. 194
Introduction	p. 195
JBIG Block Diagram	p. 196
Specification	p. 197
Specification Model	p. 198
Partitioning	p. 199
Solution 1	p. 200
Solution 2	p. 201
Solution 3	p. 202
Solution 4	p. 203
Results	p. 204
Selection	p. 206
Architecture Model	p. 207
Communication model	p. 208
Memory-Bus Interface	p. 209
JBIG Hardware Design	p. 213
JBIG Hardware Architecture	p. 214
Conclusions	p. 215
SpecC Design Environment	p. 217
Outline	p. 218
Introduction	p. 219
System Validation	p. 221
SpecC Scope	p. 222
SpecC Methodology	p. 223
Refinement	p. 224
User Interface	p. 225
Profiling and Estimation	p. 226
Interactive Refinement	p. 227
Automatic Refinement	p. 228
Validation	p. 229
SpecC Engine	p. 230
Refinement Engine	p. 231
Exploration Engine	p. 232
Synthesis Engine	p. 233
Conclusions	p. 234
References	p. 235
SpecC Technology Open Consortium	p. 237
Introduction	p. 238
Motivation	p. 238
Productivity Gap	p. 239
SpecC Technology	p. 240
The SpecC Technology Open Consortium	p. 246
Purpose	p. 247
History	p. 248
Plans	p. 249
Membership	p. 250
Index	p. 253
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