Towards a common HW/SW interface-centric and component-oriented specification and design methodology

In the scope of initial discussions about a standard OMG IDL-to-VHDL language mapping, we present some requirements and propose a configurable mapping. We demonstrate the advantages of a common component-oriented approach to specify HW and SW interfaces compared to previous object-oriented approaches. Our proposition is based on a family of hardware interfaces enabling to represent various interaction semantics and mapping configurations. Our approach is illustrated through the CORBA component model (CCM).