Tracking hardware evolution

Author

Nacif, José Augusto ; Silva, Thiago S F ; Vieira, Luiz Filipe M ; Vieira, Alex Borges ; Fernandes, Antônio O. ; Coelho, Claudionor, Jr.

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Software evolution is the term used to describe the process of developing and updating software systems. Software repositories such as versioning systems and bug tracking systems are used to manage the evolution of software projects. The mining of this information is used to support predictions and improve design and reuse. Integrated circuit development can also benefit from these techniques. Nowadays, both software and hardware development use repositories and bug tracking systems. There are many hardware open source projects such as SUN´s OpenSparc and designs at Opencores.org. We propose a methodology to track specific HDL metrics in order to improve design quality. Our results present a case study that correlates HDL metrics and bug proneness of Verilog HDL modules. We also present EyesOn, an open source framework designed to automate historical and complexity metrics tracking of HDL projects.

Keywords

hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; public domain software; SUN opensparc; Verilog HDL module; bug tracking system; integrated circuit development; software evolution; tracking hardware evolution; versioning system; Data mining; Data visualization; Hardware; Hardware design languages; Measurement; Random access memory; Software; HDL; design flow; metrics; quality; validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2011 12th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

ISSN

1948-3287

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-913-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISQED.2011.5770764

Filename

5770764