DISK-an object-oriented design tool for the synthesis and evaluation of digital circuits

Author

Kropf, Thomas K. ; Feldbusch, Fridtjof H.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. Design & Fault Tolerance, Karlsruhe Univ., West Germany

fYear

1989

fDate

8-12 May 1989

Firstpage

42518

Lastpage

42520

Abstract

The authors present an approach to the representation of design data that is based on an object-oriented programming paradigm. It is shown that this provides a powerful mechanism for handling circuit descriptions even at higher levels of the design hierarchy. In particular, it is possible to represent structural and behavioral data in a natural way, which facilitates the transformation of design data from a behavioral to a structural description, and vice versa. MOOD, an object-oriented data structure, is described as the first result of a prototype implementation together with DISK, a framework for using it with various design tools

Keywords

logic CAD; object-oriented programming; DISK; MOOD; behavioral data; circuit descriptions; data structure; design hierarchy; digital circuits; object-oriented design tool; structural data; synthesis; Circuit synthesis; Data structures; Digital circuits; Fault tolerance; Mood; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Prototypes; Signal design; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '89., 'VLSI and Computer Peripherals. VLSI and Microelectronic Applications in Intelligent Peripherals and their Interconnection Networks', Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1940-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1989.93476

Filename

93476