Transaction level modeling (TLM) is gaining favor over register-transfer level (RTL) for design components because of its many advantages—including faster design and verification times, easier ...

Many design organizations are evolving their flows to an Executable Live Specification (ELS) driven methodology and making huge gains in designer productivity because of increased and coherent ...

Model authoring kits (MAKs) enable the rapid development of transaction-level models, TLMs, of a given functionality or protocol. MAKs include base functionalities that are common to all models ...

It’s almost like flying over the Great Plains of the United States. On the ground it’s hard to see above the corn stalks, but in an airplane you can see the entire horizon even if you can’t see those ...

As System-on-Chip (SoC) designs grow ever larger, design and verification flows are changing. A rich mix of features, increased software content, high intellectual property (IP) use and submicron ...

Transaction-level modeling – an abstracted representation of design IP above the RT level — continues to grow in importance for architectural exploration, performance analysis, building virtual ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. John Bissett, head of IT, Bank of Scotland (Ireland), says, "Using TLM we ...