The goal of OSCI (Open SystemC Initiative) TLM (transaction-level modeling) 2.0 is to enable high-level component models to simply plug into and play with each other in a system model. The standard ...

The SMCR model represents the process and phenomenon of communication. The acronym stands for source, message, channel and receiver, and this theory lays out the different components that form the net ...

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SoC designs are large designs made by combining other large designs. A typical SoC has many communication pathways and a large amount of parallel activity. In order to debug these kinds of designs ...

After years of working at the register-transfer level, chip designers and verification engineers are warming up to a new approach that may represent the next step up in abstraction. But it's not a ...