Assertion based verification in TLM

Ghofrani, Amirali; Javaheri, Fatemeh Negin; Navabi, Zainalabedin

doi:10.1109/ewdts.2010.5742077

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“…Increasing complexity of digital systems led the designers to heighten the abstraction level from transistor level to gate level, RTL and finally resulted in the emergence of ESL as the highest abstraction level to implement complex systems [3]. Figure 1 shows hardware design evolution.…”

Section: Esl Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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ESL design methodology for architecture exploration

Javaheri

Navabi

2010

2010 East-West Design &Amp; Test Symposium (EWDTS)

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With the increasing complexity of digital systems, digital design techniques have evolved and got to a higher abstraction level which is Electronic System Level (ESL). Designing in this abstraction level needs new languages and methods to describe, synthesize, test, and verify systems. ESL design methodology is a way to handle the complexity of designing digital systems, and decrease time-to-market by starting the design from higher abstraction level than Register Transfer Level (RTL). Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) has emerged in the direction of system level design. TLM is originally based on high level programming languages such as C++ and SystemC. In this paper a hardware-aware ESL design methodology is proposed. The proposed methodology includes several levels containing various architecture models and guidelines for design at each level. A Test Data Compression (TDC) system is implemented as a case study using TLM-2.0 standard.

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Section: Esl Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The focus of the TLM is on communication and this is performed through passing high level data structures called transactions between computation parts. The goal is to keep the designer from the cumbersome details of communication and provide him or her with easy to use means of transferring data between modules [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%