State of the implementation of SARA

  • Authors:
  • Robert I. Gardner

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Symposium on Design Automation and Microprocessors
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

The SARA design methodology consists of a structured design procedure together with a set of description and analysis tools. Originally the methodology was used manually, the designer interpreting the methodology's modeling languages, and the designer analyzing the modeled behavior of those systems by hand. However, during the past eighteen months some of the SARA description and analysis tools have been automated and fit into an interactive computer-based design system. The SARA design methodology is made up of two components: a structured procedure for designing digital systems, and a set of tools for modeling and analyzing the systems during their design. The design procedure is described in [GAR75], [EST77]. The SARA design procedure is not explicitly represented in the set of modeling/analysis tools. That is, there is not an automatic design driver that leads the human designer through a structured design and in turn calls on the appropriate design tools. Rather, the designer interprets the SARA design procedure and selects the use of the appropriate design tools himself.