By
Perry Alexander, University of Kansas and Developer of Rosetta system design language
Description
The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single
chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it together as well
as a design that allows the hardware and software to be reconfigured for future applications. Such complex heterogeneous systems demand
a different design methodology. A consortium of industrial and government labs have created a new language and a new design methodology
to support this effort. Rosetta permits designers to specify requirements and constraints independent of their low level implementation
and to integrate the designs of domains as distinct as digital and analog electronics, and the mechanical, optical, fluidic and thermal
subsystems with which they interact.
In this book, Perry Alexander, one of the developers of Rosetta, provides a tutorial introduction
to the language and the system-level design methodology it was designed to support.
Included in series
Systems on Silicon
Audience:
system designers, verification engineers, EDA & CAD tool developers, graduate students
