Title :
Design and use of a system-level specification and verification methodology
Author :
Hashmi, M. M Kamal ; Bruce, Alistair C.
Author_Institution :
Design Autom. Centre, ICL, Manchester, UK
Abstract :
This paper describes the problem of Design Capture at System level and of moving a design verifiably down levels of abstraction. We describe our steps on the way to designing a methodology which captures system level interface and functional specifications, and enables the designers to decompose and refine specifications down to RTL VHDL in a hierarchic and piece-wise manner
Keywords :
formal specification; formal verification; hardware description languages; logic CAD; logic design; RTL VHDL; abstraction; design capture; functional specifications; system level interface; system-level specification methodology; system-level verification methodology; Algorithm design and analysis; Design automation; Design methodology; Electronics industry; Libraries; Natural languages; Refining; Testing; Time to market; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1995, with EURO-VHDL, Proceedings EURO-DAC '95., European
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7156-4
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1995.527449