EDA Taxonomies

Communication between engineers, their managers, suppliers and customers relies on the existence of a common understanding for the meaning of terms. While this is not normally a problem, it has proved to be a significant roadblock in the EDA industry in which terms are created as required by any number of people, multiple terms are coined for the same thing, or even worse, the same term is used for many different things. A taxonomy identifies all of the significant terms used by an industry and provides a structural framework in which those terms can be defined and their relationship to other terms identified. In addition, understanding all the types of models required to design and verify modern electronics-based systems can be a major undertaking without a guide. This taxonomy provides a thorough definition for the terms and models used in the creation, refinement and verification of complex systems from the conceptual level down to its implementation and considers both the hardware and software components of the system. It also covers the emerging area of platform based design. The book provides both knowledge of models and terms, and understanding of models and how they are used.