A hardware design system based on object-oriented principles

  • Authors:
  • A. J. van der Hoeven;E. F. Deprettere;P. van Prooijen;P. M. Dewilde

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands

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

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Abstract

Most hardware description languages and their environments are either based on imperative language concepts or on functional language concepts. We propose a hardware specification and simulation environment based on object-oriented principles. Object-oriented concepts such as classes, objects, inheritance and abstraction are considered in a design environment with the HiFi hardware design model as its underlying basis. This model uses single token Petri nets and Applicative State Transitions to describe the functionality and data flow of a VLSI network.