Title :
Pascal circuit compiler for UK5000
Author_Institution :
University of Southampton, Department of Electronics & Information Engineering, Southampton, UK
fDate :
3/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A Pascal compiler is described which can parse a limited subset of Pascal, and generates a circuit description in a format which can then be input to the UK5000 gate array software. A set of Pascal utilities completes this package by allowing the Pascal circuit description to be compiled by a standard Pascal system. This complete package allows the development of systems containing single or multiple UK5000 chips. More-over this can be performed on any software development system. The use of Pascal as a hardware description language is not new, but this system promotes good top-down hierarchical design of UK5000 chips and also allows quick and efficient verification of the system, prior to the automatic generation of data for entry into the UK5000 system.
Keywords :
Pascal; program compilers; specification languages; ICL Perq; Pascal compiler; UK5000 gate array software; chip specification; hardware description language; pascal circuit description; top-down hierarchical design;
Journal_Title :
Computers and Digital Techniques, IEE Proceedings E
DOI :
10.1049/ip-e.1985.0017