Computer hardware description languages and their applications

  • Authors:
  • W. M/ vanCleemput

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DAC '79 Proceedings of the 16th Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

Although design languages have been in existence since the early 1960's, only in the last few years has there been a concerted effort to bring them into the design process as a useful tool. The major applications of design languages are: 1. Description of the behavior and/or structure of a system as a means for accurately communicating design details between designers and users. 2. As the input to a system level simulator. 3. As the input to a automatic hardware compiler. 4. As the input to a formal verification system. Several attempts have been made to integrate hardware and software design. Examples are the LOGOS system [Ro76] developed at Case Western Reserve University and the SARA system developed at the University of California at Los Angeles [Es77].