Register-transfer level simulation

Author

Braunl, Thomas

Author_Institution

Centre for Intelligent Inf. Process. Syst., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

396

Abstract

We present the tool Retro (Register-Transfer Object Hardware Simulator) for simulating digital hardware systems at register-transfer level. The tool has been implemented in Java and is used for educational purposes. It provides simulation primitives for combinatorial gates, multiplexers, function units, clocks, registers, memory and I/O units. A system is constructed by picking and placing components from the menu to the canvas and interconnecting them. Simulation is then performed either in a stepwise or continuous fashion. Simulated circuits can be either synchronous or asynchronous and can range from simple examples to complete CPUs with programs in ROM and data in RAM

Keywords

Java; logic CAD; logic simulation; Java; RAM; ROM; Retro; clocks; combinatorial gates; digital hardware systems; educational purposes; function units; multiplexers; register-transfer level simulation; register-transfer object hardware simulator; registers; simulation primitives; Central Processing Unit; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Displays; Hardware; Java; Libraries; Random access memory; Registers; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2000. Proceedings. 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1526-7539

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0728-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.2000.876563

Filename

876563