Design of anything, from an ERP application to an embedded software system to a hardware device to a mechanical object, is done at some level of abstraction. Simply, a level of abstraction is the ...

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) ...

Recently there have been a lot of discussions again about the next level of design abstraction for chip design. Are we there yet? Will we ever get there? Is it SystemC? UML/SysML perhaps? I am taking ...

The bridge design pattern can be used to decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that both can be changed independent of each other Design patterns are proven solutions to recurring ...

Let’s just assume that after adding communications costs and management overhead, the cost to move offshore to a low-cost country is half of the cost of having engineers in a high-cost location. This ...

This course covers abstraction and design in computation. Topics include functional and object-oriented styles of programming, software engineering in the small, and models of computation. The goal is ...

For a decade now, mainstream complex ASIC design and verification has been done at one level of abstraction. Logic is captured, tests are generated, simulations are analyzed, and IP is delivered at ...

Electronic products that use a microcontroller have become so complex today that they commonly use a real-time operating system (RTOS). An RTOS can manage low-level resources and time, improving the ...

Fundamental concepts in the design of computer programs, emphasizing the crucial role of abstraction. The goal of the course is to give students insight into the difference between programming and ...