The Simple Art of SoC Design: Closing the Gap between RTL and ESL

by Michael Keating, Synopsys Fellow

Overview

This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs. It discusses fundamental design concepts in design and coding required to produce robust, functionally correct designs. It also provides specific techniques for measuring and minimizing complexity in RTL code. Finally, it discusses the tradeoff between RTL and high-level (C-based) design and how tools and languages must progress to address the needs of tomorrow’s SoC designs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489998163
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Keating is a Synopsys Fellow. Over the last 12 years, he has been with Synopsys focusing on IP development methodology, hardware and software design quality and low power design. His current research focuses on high level design and the challenges of designing extremely complex systems. Mike received his BSEE and MSEE from Stanford University, and has over 25 years experience in ASIC and system design. He is co-author of the Reuse Methodology Manual and the Low Power Methodology Manual. In 2007, ISQED gave Mike the Quality Award for contributions to quality in electronic design.

Table of Contents

The Challenges of Complex Design; Simplifying RTL Design; Reducing Complexity in Control-Dominated Designs; Hierarchical State Machines; More on State Space; Verification; Reducing Complexity in Data Path Dominated Designs; Simplifying Interfaces; Complexity at the Chip Level; Raising Abstraction Above RTL; SystemVerilog Extensions; The Future of Design.