Specification Description and High-level Design Methodology of SoC Considering Design Reuse

摘要

The development process of SoC is getting harder owing to the relentless rising complexity and time-to-market pressure. What is worse, the misunderstanding of specification due to the varied writing styles and gaps between each design level causes additional loss of time and cost. One of the most discussed methods to cope with this situation is design abstractions and design reuses. On those strategies UML is drawing a lot of notice as the most well-chosen description method. In this paper, we propose a design flow, which connects the gap between the requirements and actual design description in system level. The flow involves and activates the concept of design reuse. As a case study, we designed a digital camera which has limited functionalities in order to show the proposed flow works well and successfully closes the gap between requirement statements and actual designs.