System Level Design Model with Reuse of System IP

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Klaus Kronlöf

   Pages 1-4

3. System Design Practices in Industry Today

   • Klaus Kronlöf, Nikolaos S. Voros

   Pages 5-11

4. System Design - Informal Walk-Through

   • Kari Tiensyrjä

   Pages 13-20

5. System Design Conceptual Model

   • Kari Tiensyrjä, Jean Mermet

   Pages 21-41

6. Concepts for System Specification and Design Languages

   • Patrizia Cavalloro

   Pages 43-56

7. System Performance Analysis

   • Christophe Gendarme, Jos van Sas

   Pages 57-77

8. System Design Reuse

   • Nikolaos S. Voros

   Pages 79-99

9. Example of Using the System Design Conceptual Model

   • Nikolaos S. Voros

   Pages 101-114

10. Back Matter

    Pages 115-211

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This book presents the perspective of the SYDIC-Telecom project on system design and reuse as perceived in the course of the research during 1999 - 2003. The initial problem statement of the research was formulated as follows: "The current situation regarding system design in general is, that the methods are insufficient, informally practiced, and weakly supported by formal techniques and tools. Regarding system reuse the methods and tools for exchanging system design data and know-how within companies are ad hoc and insufficient. The means available inside companies being already insufficient, there are actually no ways of exchanging between companies. Therefore, there hardly exists any system IP (Intellectual Property) industry. Although system design know-how is one of companies' main assets, it cannot be reused and capitalised effectively enough today. There is a lack of rational design flows supporting a design methodology based on reuse of IP, and few design tools to support it. Even guidelines on how to use existing tools in the design flow for this purpose often do not exist." The problem was known to be hard and the scope broad. The plan of attack was first to analyse the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice, then to identify potential improvements, and finally to synthesise a formalised proposal for implementation. The approach was applied to different system-level issues, e.g. design flows, terminology, languages, reuse, design process and object of design.

• Analysis
• Usability
• complex systems
• information
• integrated circuit
• micro-alloy transistor, MAT
• model
• organization
• semantics
• single-electron transistor
• static-induction transistor
• complexity

• Itatel SpA, Milan, Italy

  Patrizia Cavalloro

• Alcatel Bell, Antwerp, Belgium

  Christophe Gendarme, Jos Sas

• Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

  Klaus Kronlöf

• ECSI, Grenoble, France

  Jean Mermet

• VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

  Kari Tiensyrjä

• INTRACOM S.A., Patras, Greece

  Nikolaos S. Voros

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