Design experience in TL modeling

The complexities of designs are increasing progressively and the computational parts have become larger, so communications between various design modules have come to be more complicated and critical. This complexity makes the designs difficult to test and verify. TLM designates a transaction as the data transfer for communication and synchronization between two modules determined by the hardware/software system specification. In order to improve design methodology to have hardware correspondence, to make the design process faster, to have short time-to-market, and to make simulation speed faster, TLM is used. The TLM platform is a key for all the optimizations in the design. In this paper MP3 decoder, which is a part of the Mp3 standard, is designed in TLM to illustrate the TLM benefits through an actual design.