Modeling foreign architectures with VHPI

VHPI is the VHDL Procedural Interface, an IEEE standards effort, with an ANSI C interface for developing models and applications that are easily integrated into a compliant simulation tool. VHPI provides sufficient access to the runtime data model to implement foreign architectures equivalent to those which can be described in VHDL. This paper examines how the control and data flow features of VHPI can be used for modeling foreign architectures