System Level Design Study Group

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

Investigation of Standardization trends
Study of elemental techniques for System Level Design
-SLD Flow/Modeling/Estimation
Publicize activities

Major activities	1998	1999	2000	2001
Investigation of SLD languages	SLDL(Rosetta)	SLDL(Rosetta)-Cont'd Several SLD languages	SystemC SpecC UML	Accellera GSRC IMEC STARC SYDIC Telecom VSIA
Research needs	Meeting with designers	Questionnaire/Analysis needs	Analysis needs	-
Research seeds			Research seeds	-
Proposal for the System Level Design Flow		Initial Proposal SLD meeting(ASP-DAC)	Refined Proposal Biwako Workshop	Trend of System Level Design SASIMI2001

Major activities		2001	2002
Investigation of Standardization rends		Accellera GSRC IMEC STARC SYDIC Telecom VSIA	starting on April 2002
Elemental techniques for SLD	System Level Design Flow	-	starting on April 2002
	Modeling	-	starting on April 2002
	Estimation	-	starting on April 2002

Investigation of Standardization Trend
- Investigation of SLD Standardization Trend through Survey of Publications and Meeting with Standardization bodies
- Join Accellera as a member
Survey and Study of system level design fundamentals
- Survey of current technical trends to clarify problems about System Level Design techniques and languages
Publicity
- English documentation on SLD activities from 1998 to 2000
- Technical report published by JEITA
- Web publishing
Cooperation with EDA Forum 2002