System Design with SystemC [Hardcover]

Thorsten Grötker (Author), Stan Liao (Author), Grant Martin (Author), Stuart Swan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2002

The emergence of the system-on-chip (SoC) era is creating many new challenges at all stages of the design process. Engineers are reconsidering how designs are specified, partitioned and verified. With systems and software engineers programming in C/C++ and their hardware counterparts working in hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog, problems arise from the use of different design languages, incompatible tools and fragmented tool flows. Momentum is building behind the SystemC language and modeling platform as the best solution for representing functionality, communication, and software and hardware implementations at various levels of abstraction. The reason is clear: increasing design complexity demands very fast executable specifications to validate system concepts, and only C/C++ delivers adequate levels of abstraction, hardware-software integration, and performance. System design today also demands a single common language and modeling foundation in order to make interoperable system--level design tools, services and intellectual property a reality. SystemC is entirely based on C/C++ and the complete source code for the SystemC reference simulator can be freely downloaded from www.systemc.org and executed on both PCs and workstations. System Design and SystemC provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful modeling capabilities of the SystemC language, and also provides a large and valuable set of system level modeling examples and techniques. Written by experts from Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Synopsys, Inc. who were deeply involved in the definition and implementation of the SystemC language and reference simulator, this book will provide you with the key concepts you need to be successful with SystemC. System Design with SystemC thoroughly covers the new system level modeling capabilities available in SystemC 2.0 as well as the hardware modeling capabilities available in earlier versions of SystemC. designed and implemented the SystemC language and reference simulator, this book will provide you with the key concepts you need to be successful with SystemC. System Design with SystemC will be of interest to designers in industry working on complex system designs, as well as students and researchers within academia. All of the examples and techniques described within this book can be used with freely available compilers and debuggers &endash; no commercial software is needed. Instructions for obtaining the free source code for the examples obtained within this book are included in the first chapter.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402070721
• ISBN-13: 978-1402070723
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,054,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Needs rewriting, August 5, 2002

By 

J Howe (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: System Design with SystemC (Hardcover)

I am a active user of SystemC, so had great hopes for either a real reference or even an introductory book. Unfortunately, this book provides neither a introduction to the language, real world help for coders, or even reference material. The free manual with SystemC better then this. Worse, it badly needs editing to clean up awkward sentances.

Generally I expense technical books, but I feel too guilty to bear the company with this overpriced book. Back it goes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice book which explains the philisophy, April 29, 2006

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J.Moorkanikara "Jay's elibrary" (Irvine, US, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: System Design with SystemC (Hardcover)

This book is not meant to be a introductory book or
about the SystemC language or coding guidelines.
For that please refer to other elementary or primer
book or the user guide available for download from
systemc website.

This book is mainly useful for researchers to understand
the philosophy behind the SystemC language and
interesting problems addressed by the language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Text in the book needs more examples, June 18, 2004

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Ali (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: System Design with SystemC (Hardcover)

A very good book, if it is used as a reference material, specially for TLM modeling, it helps along with the code for simple_bus available at www.systemc.org. For starters, I will recommend to add more examples in the text of the book as the systemC library is huge. It is sometimes very hard to remove the bugs, if sufficient examples are not available. A suggestion will be to add a functional model example of a CPU based system design, so that the ideas can be extracted out of the text easily.