Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Tenison EDA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 September 2003
Keynote address promotes high-level design
Dr David Greaves, Chief Scientist and founder of Tenison EDA presented the keynote address at this week's third annual UK ACM SIGDA Workshop in Southampton, England
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Speaking on "High-level hardware specifications", his talk posed the question: "We argue that mainstream automatic generation of hardware from software designs and formal specifications is inevitable, but we ask why does the road seem so hard?". According to Dr Greaves, hardware engineers today persist in writing massively parallel code using little more than RTL.
Instead, he argues, the time is ripe to use other languages, such as SystemC, for architectural exploration.
By adopting a higher level of abstraction, the designer will achieve a faster path to hardware/software codesign and final silicon.
Dr Greaves explained that these approaches will only succeed in their goals with tools that allow them to reuse existing legacy designs in RTL.
He describes this as "bridging the behavioural design gap".
Solving this problem was a key driver behind the development of Tenison VTOC, which enables engineers to convert existing RTL designs into C++ and SystemC so they can be reused in with high-level design methodologies.
A copy of Dr Greaves' paper is available on the Tenison EDA website.
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