Translating system specifications to VHDL

  • Authors:
  • Sanjiv Narayan;Frank Vahid;Daniel D. Gajski

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • EURO-DAC '91 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Languages based on hierarchical and concurrent state diagrams are powerful in specifying system level designs. Simulating such languages can be simplified by translating to a simulation language such as VHDL and then using available simulators. This paper describes system level abstractions commonly found in specification languages and presents semantic preserving VHDL implementations.