A hardware design system based on object-oriented principles

Author

Hoeven, A. J Van Der ; Prooijen, P. Van ; Deprettere, E.F. ; Dewilde, P.M.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1991

fDate

25-28 Feb 1991

Firstpage

459

Lastpage

463

Abstract

Most hardware description languages and their environments are either based on imperative language concepts or on functional language concepts. The authors propose a hardware specification and simulation environment based on object-oriented principles. Object-oriented concepts such as classes, objects, inheritance and abstraction are considered in a design environment with the HiFi hardware design model as its underlying basis. The model uses single token Petri nets and applicative state transitions to describe the functionality and data flow of a VLSI network

Keywords

Petri nets; VLSI; circuit CAD; object-oriented programming; programming environments; specification languages; HiFi hardware design model; VLSI network; applicative state transitions; data flow; design environment; functionality; hardware description languages; hardware design system; object-oriented principles; simulation environment; single token Petri nets; Encapsulation; Hardware design languages; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Petri nets; Software design; Timing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation. EDAC., Proceedings of the European Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDAC.1991.206447

Filename

206447