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Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Quo Vadis SLD: Reasoning about Trends and Challenges of System-Level Design". Proceedings of the IEEE, 95(3):467-506, March 2007.

Abstract
System-level design (SLD) is considered by many as the next frontier in electronic design automation (EDA). SLD means many things to different people since there is no wide agreement on a definition of the term. Academia, designers, and EDA experts have taken different avenues to attack the problem, for the most part springing from the basis of traditional EDA and trying to raise the level of abstraction at which integrated circuit designs are captured, analyzed, and synthesized from. However, my opinion is that this is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger problem that is common to all system industry. In particular, I believe that notwithstanding the obvious differences in the vertical industrial segments (for example, consumer, automotive, computing, and communication), there is a common underlying basis that can be explored. This basis may yield a novel EDA industry and even a novel engineering field that could bring substantial productivity gains not only to the semiconductor industry but to all system industries including industrial and automotive, communication and computing, avionics and building automation, space and agriculture, and health and security, in short, a real technical renaissance.

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  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Quo Vadis SLD:
  Reasoning about Trends and Challenges of System-Level
  Design". <i>Proceedings of the IEEE</i>,
  95(3):467-506, March 2007.

• BibTeX

  @article{SangiovanniVincentelli07_QuoVadisSLDReasoningAboutTrendsChallengesOfSystemLevel,
      author = {Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
      title = {Quo Vadis SLD: Reasoning about Trends and
                Challenges of System-Level Design},
      journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE},
      volume = {95},
      number = {3},
      pages = {467-506},
      month = {March},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = { System-level design (SLD) is considered by many
                as the next frontier in electronic design
                automation (EDA). SLD means many things to
                different people since there is no wide agreement
                on a definition of the term. Academia, designers,
                and EDA experts have taken different avenues to
                attack the problem, for the most part springing
                from the basis of traditional EDA and trying to
                raise the level of abstraction at which integrated
                circuit designs are captured, analyzed, and
                synthesized from. However, my opinion is that this
                is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger
                problem that is common to all system industry. In
                particular, I believe that notwithstanding the
                obvious differences in the vertical industrial
                segments (for example, consumer, automotive,
                computing, and communication), there is a common
                underlying basis that can be explored. This basis
                may yield a novel EDA industry and even a novel
                engineering field that could bring substantial
                productivity gains not only to the semiconductor
                industry but to all system industries including
                industrial and automotive, communication and
                computing, avionics and building automation, space
                and agriculture, and health and security, in
                short, a real technical renaissance. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/263.html}
  }
  

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