System-on-a-chip methodology for telecom applications

This paper presents a methodology for system-on-chip application development. The complexity of such systems requires a series of development stages where the designer has to capture system requirements through formal specification languages, select the appropriate architectural platform for implementing the final system realization, provide detailed design for hardware and software parts, and finally validate the system under development before the actual implementation. The proposed design framework leads from specification down to implementation, where a virtual prototype is produced as the last stage of system design.