This document covers the results from a course project of the graduate class "System-on-Chip Description and Modeling". It reflects the theoretical knowledge gained during the course lectures as well as the practical experiences of the course project. The project goal was to take an existing C code of an audio decoder (MPEG 1 Layer 3), convert the code into a system on a chip specification, and follow the design paradigm towards a concrete implementation. The design specification, capturing and synthesis were performed using the SpecC language and its tools set developed at UC Irvine.

Schirner_CECS, UC Irvine-TR 04-17.pdf