System Level Design with Rosetta

The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it together as well as a design that allows the hardware and software to be reconfigured for future applications. Such complex heterogeneous systems demand a different design methodology. A consortium of industrial and government labs have created a new language and a new design methodology to support this effort. Rosetta permits designers to specify requirements and constraints independent of their low level implementation and to integrate the designs of domains as distinct as digital and analog electronics, and the mechanical, optical, fluidic and thermal subsystems with which they interact.

In this book, Perry Alexander, one of the developers of Rosetta, provides a tutorial introduction to the language and the system-level design methodology it was designed to support.

* The first commercially published book on this system-level design language

* Teaches you all you need to know on how to specify, define, and generate models in Rosetta

* A presentation of complete case studies analyzing design trade-offs for power consumption, security requirements in a networking environment, and constraints for hardware/software co-design

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Items, Values, Types and Declarations
Chapter 3: Expressions
Chapter 4: Elemental Types
Chapter 5: Composite Types
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Higher-Order Functions
Chapter 8: User Defined Types
Chapter 9: Facet Basics
Chapter 10: Defining Facets
Chapter 11: Packages, Libraries and Components
Chapter 12: Domains
Chapter 13: Reflection
Chapter 14: The Facet Algebra
Chapter 15: Domain Interactions
Chapter 16: Case Studies
Chapter 17: RTL Design
Chapter 18: Power Aware Design
Chapter 19: Power Aware Modeling Revisited
Chapter 20: System-Level Networking