Architecture and specification
Turns market and customer needs into a specification other functions can build from: the features, interfaces, performance, power and area targets, the split between hardware and software, and the partitioning into blocks. For an IP block the same work defines the block's interfaces and the configuration options an integrator can choose.
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Gates it works towards
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