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the Layer-2 models. Another approach by Um et al. [48] also adapts three of the

layers from the communication stack presented above, for the purposes of com-

munication architecture exploration. Table 4.6 shows the abstraction levels used

by the approach. It can be easily seen that TL0 corresponds to Layer-3 (Message

Layer); TL1 to Layer-2 (Transaction Layer), and TL2 to Layer-0 (RTL Layer).

Pasricha et al. [34] presented another variant for integrating multiple commu-

nication-centric exploration abstractions into a design fl ow, as shown in Fig. 4.18 .

The fl ow starts at the specifi cation model, which is a C/C model that captures ...