Abstraction and specification in program development
Abstraction and specification in program development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An integrated approach to software engineering
An integrated approach to software engineering
An object-oriented VHDL design environment
DAC '90 Proceedings of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
An axiomatic basis for computer programming
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Software
Inheritance concept for signals in object-oriented extensions to VHDL
EURO-DAC '95/EURO-VHDL '95 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
An efficient implementation of reactivity for modeling hardware in the scenic design environment
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
Predicting timing behavior in architectural design exploration of real-time embedded systems
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
The construction of a retargetable simulator for an architecture template
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Hardware/software codesign
ICOS: an intelligent concurrent object-oriented synthesis methodology for multiprocessor systems
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Incorporating cores into system-level specification
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on System synthesis
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) - Special issue on Web-based modeling and simulation
A framework for user assisted design space exploration
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
A hybrid approach for core-based system-level power modeling
ASP-DAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
POSE: a parallel object-oriented synthesis environment
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
YAML: a tool for hardware design visualization and capture
ISSS '00 Proceedings of the 13th international symposium on System synthesis
Application of design patterns for hardware design
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Operation Serializability for Embedded Systems
EDTC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 European conference on Design and Test
Object oriented prototyping at the system level: an image reconstruction application example
RSP '96 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP '96)
Rapid prototyping of hardware systems via model reuse
RSP '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP '97) Shortening the Path from Specification to Prototype
VaWiRAM: a variable width random access memory module
VLSID '96 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Mobile Communication
Analyzing Controllability of a Hardware Circuit for its Reuse
VLSID '97 Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Multimedia Applications
Application of the object-oriented principles for hardware and embedded system design
Integration, the VLSI Journal
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We focus on using object-oriented techniques to improve the hardware design process. The advantages of these techniques for hardware design include: improved modifiability and maintainability of models; easy component instantiation with different parameters; quick composition of new components; the ability to identify and reuse common components; the ability to tailor general-purpose components to more specialized components; support of dynamic object creation and destruction; and the possibility of employing existing software synthesis and verification techniques. We illustrate the application of object-oriented techniques using a load-store, reduced instruction-set processor that contains a local memory. The instruction set consists of 22 instructions, which require one or two 16-bit words. Arithmetic is performed in two's complement. We use C++ to demonstrate the usefulness of object-oriented techniques, not to provide arguments for or against its use in hardware modeling and design.