Title :
Register transfer level VHDL models without clocks
Author_Institution :
SICAN Braunschweig GmbH, Germany
Abstract :
Several hardware compilers on the market convert from so-called RT level VHDL subsets to logic level descriptions. Such models still need clock signals and the notion of physical time in order to be executable. In a stage of a top-down design starting from the algorithmic level, register transfers are considered where the timing is not controlled by clock signals and where physical time is not yet relevant. We propose an executable VHDL subset for such register transfer models
Keywords :
hardware description languages; high level synthesis; VHDL; algorithm; hardware compiler; logic synthesis; register transfer level model; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Computational modeling; Control system synthesis; Hardware; Logic; Registers; Signal resolution; Signal synthesis; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 1998., Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8359-7
DOI :
10.1109/DATE.1998.655850