VOHL: a VLSI object-oriented hardware language

Author

Mahmood, A.

Author_Institution

Washington State Univ. at Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

1508

Abstract

A new hardware description language called VOHL has been designed for detailed structural descriptions of VLSI designs. VOHL has been designed to support object-oriented design descriptions and true extensibility. Since a design is always simulated at the gate level to examine detailed functionality and timing, the emphasis in VOHL is on the structural description at the gate and functional levels of design. A functional level is supported to speed up simulation for non-critical parts of the circuit. VOHL provides detailed structural descriptions of synchronous and asynchronous designs including specification of rise/fall delays and fan-outs. The syntax of VOHL and key features of object-oriented description and extensibility design are elaborated

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; logic CAD; object-oriented languages; specification languages; VLSI object-oriented hardware language; VOHL; asynchronous designs; functional level; gate level description; hardware description language; synchronous design; Circuit simulation; Computer languages; Design automation; Error correction; Hardware design languages; High level languages; Integrated circuit interconnections; Object oriented modeling; Timing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1992., Proceedings of the 35th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0510-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1992.271007

Filename

271007