Featured Paper by Bindesh Patel,Harish Poojary
Over the past few years, the term Electronic System-Level (ESL) has become a catch-all phrase
used to describe the process of defining and designing systems at levels of abstraction above the
traditional RTL entry point. Although the definition of ESL varies amongst users and vendors,
and no standard flow has emerged within the design community, there are three common
elements to the ESL techniques that are being proposed and used today: Transaction-level
modeling, the use of high-level languages such as SystemC, and hardware/software co-design.
Together, these three elements define a clear set of requirements for efficient design and debug
in the ESL domain. This tutorial will discuss the debug technology and application requirements
in all three areas, with particular focus on the practical use of transactions extracted from the
dump files from the Synopsys VCS simulator to understand and debug system operation at
higher levels of abstraction.
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