Advanced processor design using hardware description language AIDL

In order to design advanced processors in a short time, designers must simulate their designs and reflect the results to the designs at the very early stages. However, conventional hardware description languages (HDLs) do not have enough ability to describe designs easily and accurately at these stages. Thus, we have proposed a new HDL called AIDL (Architecture- and Implementation-level Description Language). In this paper, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of AIDL, we describe and compare three processors in both AIDL and VHDL descriptions