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System Design with SystemC™

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Thorsten Grötker
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  2. Stan Liao
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  3. Grant Martin
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  4. Stuart Swan
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-10

  3. Fundamentals of SystemC

    Pages 11-40

  4. Models of Computation

    Pages 41-48

  5. Classical Hardware Modeling in SystemC

    Pages 49-76

  6. Functional Modeling

    Pages 77-86

  7. Parameterized Modules and Channels

    Pages 87-108

  8. Interface and Channel Design

    Pages 109-129

  9. Transaction-Level Modeling

    Pages 131-151

  10. Communication Refinement

    Pages 153-180

  11. Testbenches, Tracing, and Debugging

    Pages 181-202

  12. Conclusions and the Future of SystemC

    Pages 203-206

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 207-218
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I am honored and delighted to write the foreword to this very first book about SystemC. It is now an excellent time to summarize what SystemC really is and what it can be used for. The main message in the area of design in the 2001 International Te- nologyRoadmapfor Semiconductors (ITRS) isthat“cost ofdesign is the greatest threat to the continuation ofthe semiconductor roadmap. ” This recent revision of the ITRS describes the major productivity improvements of the last few years as “small block reuse,” “large block reuse ,” and “IC implementation tools. ” In order to continue to reduce design cost, the - quired future solutions will be “intelligent test benches” and “embedded system-level methodology. ” As the new system-level specification and design language, SystemC - rectly contributes to these two solutions. These will have the biggest - pact on future design technology and will reduce system implementation cost. Ittook SystemC less than two years to emerge as the leader among the many new and well-discussed system-level designlanguages. Inmy op- ion, this is due to the fact that SystemC adopted object-oriented syst- level design—the most promising method already applied by the majority of firms during the last couple of years. Even before the introduction of SystemC, many system designers have attempted to develop executable specifications in C++. These executable functional specifications are then refined to the well-known transaction level, to model the communication of system-level processes.

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