Title :
The role of VHDL in the MCC CAD system
Author :
Acosta, Ramón D. ; Alexandre, Mark ; Inken, G. ; Read, Bill
Author_Institution :
Microelectron. Comput. Technol. Corp., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
A description is given of a suite of utilities for manipulating VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) designs that has been developed and integrated into a CAD (Computer-aided design) system. The system is a tightly integrated environment supporting the sharing of design information between heterogeneous tools, using an underlying knowledge base built on top of an object-orientated distributed database. The VHDL utilities include an editing mode to provide syntactic assistance for writing VHDL an analyzer to produce intermediate representations, a compiler to translate the intermediate representations into directly executable Lisp functions, an elaborator for generating simulation models from complete design, and a simulator for these models. Experimentation, continued development, and several important extensions to the CAD System VHDL utilities are in progress.<>
Keywords :
VLSI; expert systems; logic CAD; specification languages; CAD system; VHDL utilities; VHSIC Hardware Description Language; compiler; directly executable Lisp functions; editing mode; elaborator; generating simulation models; heterogeneous tools; intermediate representations; knowledge base; object-orientated distributed database; role of VHDL; sharing of design information; syntactic assistance; tightly integrated environment; utilities for manipulating VHDL; writing VHDL; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Design automation; Digital systems; Documentation; Drives; Hardware design languages; Microelectronics; Object oriented modeling; Very high speed integrated circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1988. Proceedings., 25th ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0864-1
DOI :
10.1109/DAC.1988.14731
