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Modular hardware synthesis using an HDLAlthough hardware description languages (HDL) are becoming more and more necessary to automated design systems, their application is complicated due to the difficulty in translating the HDL description into an implementable format, nonfamiliarity of hardware designers with high-level language programming, nonuniform design methodologies and the time and costs involved in transfering HDL design software. Digital design language (DDL) suffers from all of the above problems and in addition can only by synthesized on a complete system and not on its subparts, making it unsuitable for synthesis using standard modules or prefabricated chips such as those required in LSI or VLSI circuits. The present paper presents a method by which the DDL translator can be made to generate modular equations that will allow the system to be synthesized as an interconnection of lower-level modules. The method involves the introduction of a new language construct called a Module which provides for the separate translation of all equations bounded by it.
Document ID
19810060349
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Covington, J. A.
(Science Applications, Inc. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Shiva, S. G.
(Alabama, University Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1981
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Meeting Information
Meeting: SOUTHEASTCON ''81; Region 3 Conference and Exhibit
Location: Huntsville, AL
Start Date: April 5, 1981
End Date: April 8, 1981
Accession Number
81A44753
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-33096
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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