The Computer Architecture and Hardware Description Language

Author

Burlakov, A.S. ; Khmelnov, A.E.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Syst. Dynamics & Control Theor., Irkutsk, Russia

fYear

2015

fDate

25-29 May 2015

Firstpage

1066

Lastpage

1070

Abstract

The paper introduces CAHDL, the Computer Architecture and Hardware Description Language. CAHDL is aimed to specify processor instructions and computer hardware formally. Although CAHDL supports RTL modeling to some extent, it is does not describe digital circuits. CAHDL is designed first to specify CPU and hardware behavior, rather than their structure. CAHDL can be applied in simulators, compilers, disassemblers, testers and other programs requiring specification of computer architecture. In the end of the paper we observe how CAHDL is applied in computer simulation. The paper brings some CAHDL syntactic constructions as examples and explains their semantics. Parsing methods are also briefly reviewed.

Keywords

computer architecture; hardware description languages; object-oriented languages; CAHDL syntactic constructions; RTL modeling; compilers; computer architecture and hardware description language; computer simulation; disassemblers; hardware behavior; object oriented imperative language; parsing methods; processor instructions; simulators; testers; Computer architecture; Computers; Hardware design languages; Keyboards; Random access memory; Registers; Syntactics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2015 38th International Convention on

Conference_Location

Opatija

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIPRO.2015.7160433

Filename

7160433