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What is high level design?

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Electronic System Level is now an established approach at most of the world’s leading System-on-a-chip (SoC) design companies, and is being used increasingly in system design. From its genesis as an algorithm modeling methodology with ‘no links to implementation’, ESL is evolving into a set of complementary methodologies that enable embedded system design, verification, and debugging through to the hardware and software implementation of custom SoC,system-on-FPGA, system-on-board, and entire multi-board systems.

— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)