With gate counts and system complexity growing
rapidly, engineers have to find efficient ways of
designing hardware integrated circuits. The advent of
hardware description languages and synthesis
methodologies improved designer productivity by
raising the abstraction level. However, there is
still a growing productivity gap between the number
of transistors-per-chip that can be fabricated and
the transistors-per-designer that can be effectively
designed and verified. Various kinds of Intellectual
Property cores are now widely available and are used
in making ICs. These Systems on a chip...