ESL Models and their Application Electronic System Level Design and
ESL Models and their Application: Electronic System Level Design and Verification in Practice Grant Martin Brian Bailey This book arises from experience the authors have gained from years of work as industry practitioners in the field of Electronic System
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ESL Models and their Application Electronic System Level Design and Verification in Practice
Brian Bailey • Grant Martin
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Brian Bailey · Grant Martin
ESL Models and their Application Electronic System Level Design and Verification in Practice
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Brian Bailey 9100 SW 161st Ave Beaverton OR 97007 USA [email protected]
Grant Martin Tensilica, Inc. 3255-6 Scott Boulevard Santa Clara CA 95054-3013 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0964-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0965-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0965-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941313 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The book ESL Design and Verification (Elsevier 2007) [1] coincided with a point in time at which the authors believed that ESL had started to become something real and tangible. Before then it had been a collection of university projects, isolated pockets of tool development, and even patchier levels of adoption. Most of the tools that were created were based on proprietary languages, with little if any external interfaces or extensibility. When we started to write the book, we believed that ESL had turned the corner and that we were at the starting point of something big happening in the industry. That book laid the groundwork for the entire domain that is categorized as ESL and we provided our best assessments about where the technology was heading and the things that people should pay close attention to. That was just a few years ago, and in that very short period of time, there has been a significant maturing and development in certain areas of the ESL flow. These developments have brought ESL from a technology to keep your eye on to one that you should be considering adopting if you want to have the highest levels of productivity, or improved power and/or performance in the products that you design, and to attain the highest possible levels of quality. At the same time, almost nothing from that first book has been made redundant or has been shown to be a wrong prediction of where the industry was heading. As such this book is not a replacement for the previous book, but one that exp
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