VCDS tool demonstration [virtual core based design system]

Summary form only given. The VCore (virtual core) based design methodology, developed in the VCDS (virtual core based design system) project, is a novel design methodology utilizing VCores. VCores are reusable functional cores defined at high level. We designed a SoC for a wearable computer as a vehicle application in the pilot project, and compared our proposed methodology with a conventional RTL based design methodology by measuring the design productivity. We obtained very promising prospects that the design productivity could be improved 20 times for the enhanced VCDS. We give a demonstration of the implemented pilot tool to show how effective our proposed methodology is.