Interactive system design in ESCAPE

Author

Fleurkens, Hans

Author_Institution

Design Autom. Sect., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1993

fDate

28-30 Jun 1993

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

113

Abstract

This paper presents the ESCAPE design environment. ESCAPE is able to capture different design descriptions and to validate these descriptions through simulation. It is oriented towards hardware design and validation, although it can be used to model and validate other abstract models as well. ESCAPE basically consists of a very flexible tool to capture and to display design data and an integrated interactive simulator. Incremental updates of data structure, direct presentation of simulation results and the usage of animation make ESCAPE very useful for prototyping: it allows a very fast exploration of the design space and it is an excellent debugging tool

Keywords

CAD; data structures; interactive systems; virtual machines; ESCAPE; abstract models; animation; data structure; debugging tool; design descriptions; design environment; hardware design; integrated interactive simulator; prototyping; Data structures; Debugging; Design automation; Displays; Hardware; Interactive systems; Logic design; Space exploration; Time to market; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1993. Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype. Proceedings., Fourth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Research Triangle Park, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4300-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1993.263190

Filename

263190