Title :
Rapid prototyping of a communication controller for the CAN bus
Author :
Winter, A. ; Bittruf, D. ; Tanurhan, Y. ; Muller-Glaser, K.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. & Microsyst., Forschungszentrum Inf. Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents the rapid prototyping process for a communication controller design. It has been specified at a very high abstraction level with no commitment to the final realization architecture. Via VHDL code generation and synthesis a gate level netlist has been generated. For a fast verification of the specification a hardware emulator and a PC have been configured with the design and have been integrated into a real communications network. By this means it has been possible to discover specification failures as fast as possible and to avoid time consuming redesigns
Keywords :
data communication; data communication equipment; hardware description languages; logic CAD; system buses; CAN bus; VHDL code generation; communication controller; communications network; gate level netlist; rapid prototyping; Communication networks; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Costs; Hardware; Network synthesis; Protocols; Prototypes; Software prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Rapid System Prototyping, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Thessaloniki
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7603-5
DOI :
10.1109/IWRSP.1996.506743
