Agile hardware development with rapid hardware definition language

Author

Allen, Jacob N. ; Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Hoda S. ; Ewing, Robert L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comp. Eng., Oakland Univ., Rochester Hills, MI, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 June 2009

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

388

Abstract

Rapid HDL is a hardware definition language developed in C# for the Microsoft .Net platform. Rapid HDL unifies digital FPGA hardware development and co-software integration. Hardware is scripted using reusable software objects, communication between hardware and software is automatic, and synthesis is automated using a free tool chain. Rapid HDL represents 18,000 lines of code and is freely available under the MIT license.

Keywords

C language; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; network operating systems; object-oriented methods; software libraries; software reusability; C#; MIT license; Massachusettes Institute of Technology; Microsoft.Net platform; agile hardware development; cosoftware integration; digital FPGA; field programmable gate arrays; free tool chain; rapid HDL; rapid hardware definition language; reusable software object; Field programmable gate arrays; Force sensors; Hardware design languages; High level languages; Licenses; Microelectronics; Software libraries; Software reusability; Software tools; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro/Information Technology, 2009. eit '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Windsor, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3354-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3355-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2009.5189647

Filename

5189647