Reusing hardware components with single-state processes

  • Authors:
  • Ana C. V. de Melo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, IME, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • SBCCI'99 Proceedings of the XIIth conference on Integrated circuits and systems design
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The interest of reuse existing components lies on the idea of reducing the efforts to develop new systems. The best reuse is achieved as no new components are required to be built. Most time, however, this ideal case is not feasible, and at least part of the system is required to be designed. For such cases, the new elements being constructed must be as simple as possible in order to take advantages of the reuse principles. This paper presents a technique to reuse synchronous hardware components as a single level combinational circuit is required to be built. A synchronous process algebra is used to represent hardware components.