System Level Design with Rosetta

by Perry Alexander, Wolf

Overview

The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it together as well as a design that allows the hardware and software to be reconfigured for future applications. Such complex heterogeneous systems demand a different design methodology. A consortium of industrial and government labs have created a new language and a new design methodology to support this effort. Rosetta permits designers to specify requirements and constraints independent of their low level implementation and to integrate the designs of domains as distinct as digital and analog electronics, and the mechanical, optical, fluidic and thermal subsystems with which they interact.

In this book, Perry Alexander, one of the developers of Rosetta, provides a tutorial introduction to the language and the system-level design methodology it was designed to support.


* The first commercially published book on this system-level design language

* Teaches you all you need to know on how to specify, define, and generate models in Rosetta

* A presentation of complete case studies analyzing design trade-offs for power consumption, security requirements in a networking environment, and constraints for hardware/software co-design

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558607712
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/27/2006
Series:	Systems on Silicon Series
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	0.77(w) x 7.50(h) x 9.25(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Items, Values, Types and Declarations
Chapter 3: Expressions
Chapter 4: Elemental Types
Chapter 5: Composite Types
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Higher-Order Functions
Chapter 8: User Defined Types
Chapter 9: Facet Basics
Chapter 10: Defining Facets
Chapter 11: Packages, Libraries and Components
Chapter 12: Domains
Chapter 13: Reflection
Chapter 14: The Facet Algebra
Chapter 15: Domain Interactions
Chapter 16: Case Studies
Chapter 17: RTL Design
Chapter 18: Power Aware Design
Chapter 19: Power Aware Modeling Revisited
Chapter 20: System-Level Networking

Editorial Reviews

In his forward to Perry Alexander's System Level Design with Rosetta, Grant Martin observes that “every new language seems to require at least one book be written to promote understanding and further interest and use, so [for Rosetta] this milestone has now been achieved.” Alexander, one of the fathers of the Rosetta language, has produced what may prove to be the seminal text on Rosetta, and one that helps it move from an academic exercise to a real-world language.

The book is packed with clear code examples that explain all the language’s elements, both individually and in combination. Inasmuch as Rosetta represents more than a simple language but also a methodology, that methodology is also clearly detailed. Anyone who’s curious about Rosetta and, indeed, interested in a holistic approach to system-level design, should find this volume highly useful.”
— David Maliniak, Electronic Design Online, December 18, 2006

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