Modeling concepts for VLSI CAD objects
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Design of system interface modules
ICCAD '92 1992 IEEE/ACM international conference proceedings on Computer-aided design
Increasing design quality and engineering productivity through design reuse
DAC '93 Proceedings of the 30th international Design Automation Conference
Reuse of design objects in CAD frameworks
ICCAD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
System Specification with the SpecCharts Language
IEEE Design & Test
A New Interface Specification Methodology and
A New Interface Specification Methodology and
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Presents the design of a variable width RAM (VaWiRAM) which will be extremely useful in building flexible memory systems. Principles of reconfigurability of programmable logic and programmable interconnect is incorporated into random access memories to achieve this flexibility. The chip can be reconfigured by setting a few configuration pins on the memory chip. A VaWiRAM reconfigurable between widths 1 and W/sub max/ can be constructed with the extra cost of W/sub max/-1 pass gates, W max/2- to -1 multiplexers, and [log/sub 2/[log/sub 2/(k)+1]] mode pins. The paper discusses the architecture of the proposed VaWiRAMs, and analyzes the trade-offs in their design.