Title :
A hardware design system based on object-oriented principles
Author :
Hoeven, A. J Van Der ; Prooijen, P. Van ; Deprettere, E.F. ; Dewilde, P.M.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
Most hardware description languages and their environments are either based on imperative language concepts or on functional language concepts. The authors propose a hardware specification and simulation environment based on object-oriented principles. Object-oriented concepts such as classes, objects, inheritance and abstraction are considered in a design environment with the HiFi hardware design model as its underlying basis. The model uses single token Petri nets and applicative state transitions to describe the functionality and data flow of a VLSI network
Keywords :
Petri nets; VLSI; circuit CAD; object-oriented programming; programming environments; specification languages; HiFi hardware design model; VLSI network; applicative state transitions; data flow; design environment; functionality; hardware description languages; hardware design system; object-oriented principles; simulation environment; single token Petri nets; Encapsulation; Hardware design languages; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Petri nets; Software design; Timing; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation. EDAC., Proceedings of the European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
DOI :
10.1109/EDAC.1991.206447
