This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs. It discusses fundamental design concepts in design and coding required to produce robust, functionally correct designs. It also provides specific techniques for measuring and minimizing complexity in RTL code. Finally, it discusses the tradeoff between RTL and high-level (C-based) design and how tools and languages must progress to address the needs of tomorrow's SoC designs. * Provides an easily accessible guide that enables readers to write better, more verifiable code for complex SoCs; * Describes techniques for successful SoC design, including simplifying RTL design, reducing complexity in control-dominated designs, reducing complexity in data path dominated designs, and simplifying interfaces; * Discusses the tradeoff between RTL and high-level (C-based) design and how tools and languages should develop to fill future needs. á Early praise for The Simple Art of SoC Design"