Reuse Methodology Manual for System-On-A-Chip Designs

by Pierre Bricaud and Michael Keating

Book Overview

Foreword. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. The System-on-a-Chip Design Process. 3. System-Level Design Issues: Rules and Tools. 4. The Macro Design Process. 5. RTL Coding Guidelines. 6. Macro Synthesis Guidelines. 7. Macro Verification Guidelines. 8. Developing Hard Macros. 9. Macro Deployment: Packaging for Reuse. 10. System Integration with Reusable Macros. 11. System-Level Verification Issues. 12. Data and Project...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792385586
• ISBN13: 9780792385585
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very useful in practice

This book pointed out many design problems that I just met before. Designer could avoid many of them by following the guidelines in this book. I think it would help me a lot in my design work. Thanks to the authors.

Recommend it to every designer as a handbook

The guidelines are not difficult to understand, and you may have the pieces here and there. But this book has a broad coverage. I got this book by luck draw at SNUG. Didn't pay attention at first until I read it. Very well organized, very accurate description of the real feelings of doing a real chip. The methodology it talks about is not limited to "reuse". I suggest the auther change the title for next edition.

Great baseline text for VLSI designers of all stripes

I really liked this book and found its rules and guidelines very useful. Many of the guidelines are common sense, but it is still very appropriate to have them codified in a single textbook. Practitioners of full-custom approaches to IC design will complain that this is an "ASIC" book. It does have some rules that folks from that background will find hard to swallow (eg, no latches, no gated clocks). But 70% of the book is still applicable to full custom design and will result in faster re-use of full custom cores. The book gets off to a fairly wooly start but becomes substantial with the RTL Coding Guidelines chapter. From then on, its really solid stuff. This is a good book for the times. With much discussion of design re-use and transferable intelectual property in the chip industry, it has all the hallmarks of becoming a 'bible' book for IC designers of all stripes.