Implementação de um módulo controlador de vídeo na forma Intellectual Property

Abstract

Digital electronic systems are becoming more and more complex, and time to market has been decreasing every day. These challenges impose the use of new project methodologies capable to deal with this complexity and to increase the productivity of hardware designers. This work roposes a new project methodology, based on SystemC language, which uses a top-down approach and models digital systems in three abstraction levels. A video controller module was developed using this methodology. A commercial behavioral synthesis tool was used to automate part of the development process. The results of this process and some limitations of the methodology are also presented.