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What ever became of the idea that we could define an embedded system in C, push the Compile button, and watch the tool spit out a complete hardware and software system design?

This month we lead off with an article on using SystemC to develop an SoC at Texas Instruments. The author describes a very specific use of SystemC in the tightly-constrained context of the OMAP platform, and in the hands of an experienced IC design team. Yet the subject itself raises the question of an old promise: what ever became of the idea that we could define an embedded system in C, push the Compile button, and watch the tool spit out a complete hardware and software system design?