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US 2003/0126563 A1Published application
Method for designing a system LSI
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorHiroyuki Nakajima
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Abstract
A method for designing a system LSI includes the steps of dividing an algorithmic description of the system LSI into software and hardware groups, synthesizing the hardware group by behavior synthesis to create an RTL description and a simulation description, examining the circuit scale of the system LSI based on the RTL description, and simulating the system LSI based on the simulation description and a software description.
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A method for designing a system LSI operating on specific software, said method comprising the steps of:
- describing functions of a basic-instruction processor, a dedicated-instruction processor and a communication interface transferring data between said basic-instruction processor and said dedicated-instruction processor, to thereby create an algorithmic description;
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- synthesizing said algorithmic description by using a behavior synthesis to create a lower-level-language description for said basic-instruction processor, dedicated-instruction processor and communication interface.
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