DocumentCode
3145821
Title
Programming Languages for Hardware Description
Author
Robinson, Peter ; Dion, Jeremy
Author_Institution
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, England
fYear
1983
fDate
27-29 June 1983
Firstpage
12
Lastpage
16
Abstract
This paper describes work done as part of a design automation system for gate arrays. The system provides no hardware description language and circuits are described in the same language in which the system is implemented, Modula-2. We claim that modern programming languages are sufficiently general to be good hardware description languages, and that a design automation system which is based on this principle will be simpler and more extensible than one based on a specialized hardware description language.
Keywords
Circuit simulation; Computer languages; Design automation; Hardware; Logic design; Logic programming; Reactive power; Software design; Software libraries; Wires;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Design Automation, 1983. 20th Conference on
ISSN
0738-100X
Print_ISBN
0-8186-0026-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DAC.1983.1585618
Filename
1585618
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