An introduction to SLDL and Rosetta

The Rosetta Stone (permanently displayed at the British Museum of Art) has played a pivotal role in enabling scientists to translate across a number of widely varying languages used around the world throughout our history. Through this mapping process, linguists have been able to more fully understand the semantic meaning embodied in the written word of our culture. Similarly, the Rosetta language (as we will refer to it in this text) represents a modern-day effort to map across semantic domains within the electronics-centric systems engineering world, motivated by the trend towards System-Level Integration, or System-on-a-Chip (SoC). Rosetta plays a key role in the System Level Design Language (SLDL) industry standards initiative.