Comments on: The ESL Conundrum http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2008/12/17/the-esl-conundrum/ Deep Insights for Chip Architects and Engineers Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Architecture Blogs http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2008/12/17/the-esl-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-6379 Architecture Blogs Sat, 23 May 2009 07:58:00 +0000 http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/?p=623#comment-6379 <strong>Architecture Blogs...</strong> [...] The SystemC language emerged as a way to model products using SystemC for architecture definition and software development, but stalled as it was extremely difficult to model all the different components in a system or in a design ... [...]... Architecture Blogs…

[...] The SystemC language emerged as a way to model products using SystemC for architecture definition and software development, but stalled as it was extremely difficult to model all the different components in a system or in a design … [...]…

]]> By: Dean Stevens http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2008/12/17/the-esl-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-788 Dean Stevens Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:17:21 +0000 http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/?p=623#comment-788 This is an interesting discussion, although I hope that the gains in productivity, and management of complexity, that come from taking another step up the abstraction hierarchy are revolutionary, rather than evolutionary. Perhaps part of the issue is that we need to focus less on SystemC and current notions of how ESL evolves from existing design tools and more on building reusable models that become the drivers of the entire design process. This is an interesting discussion, although I hope that the gains in productivity, and management of complexity, that come from taking another step up the abstraction hierarchy are revolutionary, rather than evolutionary. Perhaps part of the issue is that we need to focus less on SystemC and current notions of how ESL evolves from existing design tools and more on building reusable models that become the drivers of the entire design process.

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