Improvements to ADEPT-a VHDL based integrated design environment for performance and dependability analysis

Author

Klenke, Robert H. ; Aylor, James H. ; Johnson, Barry W. ; Choi, Charles Y. ; Meyassed, Moshe ; Rao, Ramesh ; Dungan, William W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

19-22, Oct 1997

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

199

Abstract

This paper presents improvements to the Advanced Design Environment Prototype Tool (ADEPT) that have been developed under the RASSP (Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors) program. ADEPT is an integrated design environment based on IEEE 1076 VHDL that supports the design and analysis of digital systems from initial concept to the final implementation. Improvements that have been made to ADEPT in the areas of mixed-level modeling-the cosimulation of performance and behavioral models, dependability modeling and analysis, modeling libraries, and post simulation data visualization tools, are presented

Keywords

IEEE standards; application specific integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; circuit reliability; data visualisation; digital signal processing chips; digital simulation; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; ADEPT; Advanced Design Environment Prototype Tool; IEEE 1076; RASSP program; Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors; VHDL; behavioral models; cosimulation; data visualization tools; dependability analysis; digital systems; integrated design environment; mixed-level modeling; modeling libraries; performance analysis; Analytical models; Costs; Design engineering; Digital systems; Performance analysis; Prototypes; Signal design; Signal processing; Software libraries; Space exploration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VHDL International Users' Forum, 1997. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8180-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VIUF.1997.623950

Filename

623950