Machine code: the ones and zeroes are an abstract representation of the electromagnetic signals flowing through the wires and computer chips. Assembler: hides away the machine code, allowing a ...

In the context of todays increasingly complex SoC's there is a need for design methodologies that start at higher levels of abstraction. Transactional modeling can become this new abstraction level.

Without abstraction, advances in semiconductor design would have stalled decades ago and circuits would remain about the same size as analog blocks. No new abstractions have emerged since the 1990s ...