Title :
System level design, a VHDL based approach
Author :
van den Hurk, Job ; Dilling, Edwin
Author_Institution :
Philips Semicond., Product Concept & Application Lab. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
A hierarchical system design flow was developed to facilitate concurrent development and time-to-market reductions. The system design flow provides for codesign of (embedded) driver software, digital hardware, and analogue hardware. The flow starts from a prosaic functional target specification, which is formally recorded in a system algorithm, in VHDL. Through functional decomposition and partitioning, individual parts of the system algorithm are projected onto software, digital hardware, and analogue hardware design flows, all based on VHDL. The hierarchical flow was applied to the design of channel and source decoding systems for digital video broadcast applications
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; digital integrated circuits; hardware description languages; VHDL based approach; concurrent development; digital hardware; digital video broadcast applications; functional decomposition; hierarchical system design flow; partitioning; prosaic functional target specification; source decoding systems; system level design; time-to-market reductions; Algorithm design and analysis; Decoding; Digital video broadcasting; Embedded software; Hardware; Hierarchical systems; Partitioning algorithms; Software algorithms; System-level design; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1995, with EURO-VHDL, Proceedings EURO-DAC '95., European
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7156-4
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1995.527461