Title :
Recent trends in hardware/software description languages
Author :
Aboulhamid, El Mostapha ; Lapalme, James
Author_Institution :
DIRO, Univ. de Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
In this work. we review the evolution of hardware description languages. We describe the recent needs concerning platform based design. the challenges of the introduction of intellectual property block, the ever increasing part of software components in a digital systems and its impact on the evolution of modeling capabilities. We review the features of object oriented methodologies in dealing with these challenges and in providing design reuse capabilities as well as safe-modeling of hardware/software systems.
Keywords :
digital systems; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; object-oriented methods; digital systems; hardware-software description languages; intellectual property; object oriented methodologies; platform based design; Digital systems; Electronic design automation and methodology; Hardware design languages; Intellectual property; Moore´s Law; Object oriented modeling; Productivity; System testing; System-level design; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics, 2003. ICM 2003. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
977-05-2010-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2003.1287761
