The AMS Extension to System Level Design Language--SpecC

Yu LIU
Satoshi KOMATSU
Masahiro FUJITA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.12    pp.3397-3407
Publication Date: 2006/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.12.3397
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: System Level Design
Keyword: 
system level design language,  AMS,  SpecC,  continuous behavior,  

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Summary: 
Recently, system level design languages (SLDLs), which can describe both hardware and software aspects of the design, are receiving attentions. Analog mixed-signal (AMS) extensions to SLDLs enable current discrete-oriented SLDLs to describe and simulate not only digital systems but also digital-analog mixed-signal systems. In this paper, we present our work on the AMS extension to one of the system level design language--SpecC. The extended language supports designer to describe all the analog, digital and software aspects in a universal language.


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