SpecC: Specification Language and Methodology [Hardcover]

Daniel D. Gajski (Author), Jianwen Zhu (Author), Rainer D�mer (Author), Andreas Gerstlauer (Author), Shuqing Zhao (Author)

4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

List Price:	CDN$ 197.95
Price:	CDN$ 167.48 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save:	CDN$ 30.47 (15%)
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Usually ships within 2 to 5 weeks.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.

Product Details

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (Mar 31 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792378229
ISBN-13: 978-0792378228
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.7 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 676 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,277,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

See Complete Table of Contents

Product Description

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially according to Moore's Law, pushing technology towards the system-on-a-chip (SOC) era. However, we are increasingly experiencing a productivity gap where the chip complexity that can be handled by current design teams falls short of the possibilities offered by technological advances. Together with growing time-to-market pressures, this drives the need for innovative measures to increase design productivity by orders of magnitude. It is commonly agreed that the solutions for achieving such a leap in design productivity lie in a shift of the focus of the design process to higher levels of abstraction on the one hand and in the massive reuse of predesigned, complex system components (intellectual property, IP) on the other hand. In order to be successful, both concepts eventually require the adoption of new languages and methodologies for system design, backed-up by the availability of a corresponding set of system-level design automation tools. This book presents the SpecC system-level design language (SLDL) and the corresponding SpecC design methodology. The SpecC language is intended for specification and design of SOCs or embedded systems including software and hardware, whether using fixed platforms, integrating systems from different IPs, or synthesizing the system blocks from programming or hardware description languages. SpecC Specification Language and Methodology describes the SpecC methodology that leads designers from an executable specification to an RTL implementation through a well-defined sequence of steps. Each model is described and guidelines are given for generating these models from executable specifications. Finally, the SpecC methodology is demonstrated on an industrial-size example. The design community is now entering the system level of abstraction era and SpecC is the enabling element to achieve a paradigm shift in design culture needed for system/product design and manufacturing. SpecC Specification Language and Methodology will be of interest to researchers, designers, and managers dealing with system-level design, design flows and methodologies as well as students learning system specification, modeling and design.

Book Info

Presents and introduces the SpecC language and provides a language reference manual, describing the SpecC methodology, and demonstrates the methodology with the example of a voice coder design.

Inside This Book (Learn More)

First Sentence
Ever since the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) roadmap forecast a productivity gap in the design of system-on-a-chip (SOC), the design and CAD community have been working hard on closing that gap. Read the first page

Explore More
Concordance

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

Customer Reviews

1 Review

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars is it a book about " principles of digital behavior" ?, Jun 13 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: SpecC: Specification Language and Methodology (Hardcover)

I seldom get a book which can reflect the rapid change of the design methodology. But I do think other books written by Gajski are very excellent. So, after I reading this book, I will post more detail review about it.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See the customer review...

Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com ^(beta)

Amazon.com: 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars is it a book about " principles of digital behavior" ?, Jun 12 2000

By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: SpecC: Specification Language and Methodology (Hardcover)

› Go to Amazon.com to see the review 4.0 out of 5 stars