Rapid prototyping of a communication controller for the CAN bus

Author

Winter, A. ; Bittruf, D. ; Tanurhan, Y. ; Muller-Glaser, K.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. & Microsyst., Forschungszentrum Inf. Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

19-21 Jun 1996

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

157

Abstract

This paper presents the rapid prototyping process for a communication controller design. It has been specified at a very high abstraction level with no commitment to the final realization architecture. Via VHDL code generation and synthesis a gate level netlist has been generated. For a fast verification of the specification a hardware emulator and a PC have been configured with the design and have been integrated into a real communications network. By this means it has been possible to discover specification failures as fast as possible and to avoid time consuming redesigns

Keywords

data communication; data communication equipment; hardware description languages; logic CAD; system buses; CAN bus; VHDL code generation; communication controller; communications network; gate level netlist; rapid prototyping; Communication networks; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Costs; Hardware; Network synthesis; Protocols; Prototypes; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7603-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1996.506743

Filename

506743