Digital Systems Design with FPGAs and CPLDs

CHAPTER 10 System-Level Design

10.1 Introduction

Increasingly, there is a need to develop more complex digital systems and more quickly to reduce development time and cost and to get a new product to market first. These requirements have highlighted the limitations that exist with traditional design approaches that were developed and suited to smaller designs where working at a more detailed level was part of the normal design process. In the more complex designs, working at the detailed design level is no longer viable, resulting in a need to work at a higher level of design abstraction. Here, the designer develops, validates, and verifies the operation of high-level design models, which are then automatically synthesized into the circuit ...