
System Design
A Practical Guide with SpecC
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 5. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 255 pages
978-1-4613-5575-5 (ISBN)
Description
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:
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.
More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 255 p.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-5575-5 (9781461355755)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-1481-7
Schweitzer Classification
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12/2012
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05/2001
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
1. The SpecC Language.- Outline.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Computational Models.- 1.3 The SpecC Model.- 1.4 System-level Language Requirements.- 1.5 The SpecC Language.- 1.6 Summary and Conclusion.- 2. Modeling and Design with SpecC.- Outline.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Specification Model.- 2.3 Architecture Refinement.- 2.4 Architecture Model.- 2.5 Communication Synthesis.- 2.6 Communication Model.- 2.7 Backend.- 2.8. Implementation Model.- 2.9 Summary and Conclusions.- 3. Design of a GSM Vocoder.- Outline.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Specification Model.- 3.3 Architecture Exploration.- 3.4 Architecture Model.- 3.5 Communication Synthesis.- 3.6 Communication Model.- 3.7 Backend.- 3.8 Implementation Model.- 3.9 Summary & Conclusions.- 4. Design of a JBIG Encoder.- Outline.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Specification.- 4.3 Partitioning.- 4.4 Architecture Model.- 4.5 Communication model.- 4.6 JBIG Hardware Design.- 4.7 Conclusions.- 5 SpecC Design Environment.- Outline.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Refinement.- 5.3 SpecC Engine.- 5.4 Conclusions.- 6. SpecC Technology Open Consortium.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Motivation.- 6.3 The SpecC Technology Open Consortium.