An Overview of Methodologies and Tools in the Field of System-Level Design

In this paper we present an overview of system level design methodologies and tools. Eight tools and their underlying methodologies are analysed. We give a short description of each of them and point out some of their strengths and weaknesses. We conclude that there still is a lot of room for research on the design of embedded systems-on-a-chip, especially in the areas of mixed-level simulation, verification, and synthesis.

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