STMicroelectronics Pioneers Major Breakthrough in SoC Design

Five years of research and development at STMicroelectronics are today revealed by the publication of a book on a novel chip design methodology. In their efforts, the authors of ‘Transaction Level Modeling with SystemC’ have pioneered the next practical level of abstraction for production digital designs, yielding significant improvements in productivity and first-time silicon success. This modeling concept is supported by the newly released TLM library standard by the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), introduced at this year’s Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, California (June 13-17, 2005).