Title :
HIFSuite: Tools for HDL code conversion and manipulation
Author :
Bombieri, Nicola ; Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe ; Di Guglielmo, Luigi ; Ferrari, Michele ; Fummi, Franco ; Pravadelli, Graziano ; Stefanni, Francesco ; Venturelli, Alessandro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Verona, Verona, Italy
Abstract :
HIFSuite is a set of tools and application programming interfaces (APIs) that provide support for modeling and verification of HW/SW systems. The core of HIFSuite is the HDL Intermediate Format (HIF) language upon which a set of front-end and back-end tools have been developed to allow the conversion of HDL code into HIF code and vice versa. HIFSuite allows designers to manipulate and integrate heterogeneous components implemented by using different hardware description languages (HDLs). Moreover, HIFSuite includes tools, which rely on HIF APIs, for manipulating HIF descriptions in order to support code abstraction/refinement and post-refinement verification.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; formal verification; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; software tools; HDL code conversion; HDL intermediate format; HIF API; HIF descriptions; HIF language; HIFSuite; HW/SW systems; application programming interfaces; back-end tools; code abstraction; code manipulation; code refinement; front-end tools; hardware description languages; heterogeneous components; post-refinement verification; Application software; Computer science; Design engineering; Design methodology; Electrostatic discharge; Embedded system; Genetic mutations; Hardware design languages; Manuals; Pattern analysis;
Conference_Titel :
High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7805-7
DOI :
10.1109/HLDVT.2010.5496665
