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Objectives

  • Propose system level design methodology and flow
    -Examination of expected System Level Design environment based on needs and seeds
  • Investigate of system level design languages for SoC design
  • Publicize activities

History of Activities

Major activities
1998
1999
2000

Investigation of
SLD languages

SLDL(Rosetta)

SLDL(Rosetta)-Cont'd
Several SLD languages

SystemC
SpecC
UML

Research needs

Meeting with designers
Questionare/Analysis needs
Analysis needs

Research seeds

   
Research seeds

Proposal for the
system design flow

 

Initial Proposal

SLD meeting(ASP-DAC)

Refined Proposal

Biwako Workshop

 

Activities in 2000

  • Analysis of system level designers' requirements(Needs):
    - Analysis of interview with system level designers conducted in 1999
    - Analysis of questionnaire about sytem level design conducted in 1999
    - Extraction and analysis of above materials
  • Survey of system level design fundamentals(Seeds):
    - Investigation of technology for system LSI
    - Survey of current technical trends
  • Research system level design languages:
    - SpecC
    - SystemC
    - UML
  • Publicity
    - Technical report published by JEITA(plan)
    - Web publishing
    - Biwako workshop participation
  • Cooperation with ASP-DAC

Presentations/Reports

Members

  • INNOTECH CORPRATION
    Tsutomu Ube
  • SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Kouji Matsumura
  • SHARP CORPORATION
    Masayuki Yamaguchi (Co-chair)
  • Sony Corporation
    Masaki Kochiya
  • TOSHIBA CORPORATION
    Dai Araki
  • TOPPAN TECHINICAL DESIGN CENTER CO., LTD
    Kousuke Mogi
  • NEC Corporation
    Hitoshi Kurosaka (Co-chair)
  • Hitachi, Ltd.
    Kazuhiko Kobayashi
  • FUJITSU LIMITED
    Tomonori Yamashita
    Masato Ohtsuka
  • Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Kazuyoshi Takemura
  • MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Mitsuhiro Yasuda (Chair)
    Hiroaki Sakai
  • Mentor Graphics Japan Co., Ltd
    Siu-ki Wan

  • STARC
    Kenji Yoshida
    Tokinori Kozawa
  • Osaka University
    Masaharu Imai
  • Kochi University of Technology
    Masayoshi Tachibana
  • Nagasaki University
    Norihiko Yoshida

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Update: 09/05/2001