A Functional Specification Notation for Co-Design of Mixed Analog-Digital Systems

  • Authors:
  • A. Dobol;R. Vemuri

  • Affiliations:
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Stony Brook, NY;University of Cincinnati, ECECS Department, Cincinnati, OH,

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper discusses aBlox - a specification notation forhigh-level synthesis of mixed-signal systems. aBlox addressesthree important aspects of mixed-signal system specification:(1) description of functionality and (2) performanceissues and (3) expression of analog-digital interactions.The semantics of aBlox embeds concepts and rulesof a functional computational model, and uses a declarativestyle to denote performance elements. The papershows some mixed-signal specifications that we developedin aBlox. Finally, we describe a high-level analog synthesisexperiment that used aBlox specifications as inputs.