Title :
A VHDL reuse workbench
Author :
Lehmann, Gunther ; Wunder, Bernhard ; Muller-Glaser, Klaus D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Inf. Process. Technol., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
Abstract :
An increasing productivity gap affects the progress of electronic system design. As an immediately available solution, the application of reuse techniques is widely recognized. This paper presents a reuse workbench for VHDL designs which covers the three basic requirements of a design with reuse process: availability, findability, and understandability. The latter is realized by a novel reverse engineering concept for VHDL designs. It is based on the intensive use of hypertext techniques and graphical code representations
Keywords :
computer graphics; hardware description languages; hypermedia; reverse engineering; software reusability; VHDL reuse workbench; availability; electronic system design; findability; graphical code representations; hypertext techniques; reverse engineering concept; understandability; Costs; Hardware design languages; Information processing; Lead compounds; Process design; Product development; Productivity; Reverse engineering; Software tools; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1996, with EURO-VHDL '96 and Exhibition, Proceedings EURO-DAC '96, European
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7573-X
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1996.558237
