When Will We Move From RTL to TLM? I Need to Know!

By _Cadence - Logic Design

March 8, 2010

My esteemed colleague, Steve Brown, recently wrote a well-thought piece trying to forecast what it will take to move the bulk of design from RTL abstraction to transaction-level modeling (TLM). He uses the gate-level to RTL migration as a reference point so that we can learn from history.

He lists a lot of factors that enabled the mainstream shift from gate-level to RTL, and sketches out a similar list of what would be required to move from RTL to TLM. It's a long list. Having worked in the logic design area of EDA since roughly 1993, I'd like to offer my own take. And given that I'm product manager of a product named "RTL Compiler", I have a personal interest in understanding this.

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