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December 6, 2007

Electronic System Level (ESL) Modeling and Methodologies

The field of Electronic System Level (ESL) continues to grow and build momentum, as the array of vendor offerings continues to grow in response to emerging industry standards and a widening variety of challenges.

With the establishment of the IEEE-1666 ESL Language Reference Manual (LRM), and the release of the TLM 2.0 (Transaction Level Modeling) Draft 2 by OSCI, the industry stands poised on the threshold of a new level of interoperability between vendor tools, third-party IP, and Customer’s needs.

The opportunities for application of ESL methodologies are many, ranging from architectural exploration to power estimation, software development, models and IP, early RTL verification, pre-silicon validation, higher-level synthesis, improved operability between abstraction levels, and more.

Posted by Vital at December 6, 2007 1:22 AM