How will components be implemented?
What are the most promising implementation media?
- SW
- SW running on a standard processor - MIPS R4000
- SW running on a tailored processor - TI TMS320C54
- SW for a configurable processor - XTENSA
- SW for an application-specific processor - C-Cube MPEG decoder
- HW
- hard - actual layout
- firm - netlist
- soft - synthesizable RTL model in VHDL?/ Verilog?
The aim of this course is to make us the authority on these questions!