An efficient implementation of reactivity for modeling hardware in the scenic design environment
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
OpenJ: an extensible system level design language
DATE '99 Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Hardware reuse at the behavioral level
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
IP REUSE QUALITY: "Intellectual Property" or "Intense Pain"?
ISQED '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design
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In its most general sense, intellectual property components (IPs) refer to any design artifacts that are reusable. While the specification of the functional IPs, such as behavioral and RTL specifications have been widely investigated, the specifications of others, such as timing, constraints, layouts and architectures are largely ad hoc. This leads to different standard or proprietary file/database formats with interoperatability problems, which eventually hinder the distribution and integration of IPs. In this paper, we address the difficult problem of integrating semantically diverse non-functional IPs by the use of a new, extensible language called Babel. Despite its simple 1-page grammar, Babel is frontend for a powerful IP-based design infrastructure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by two case studies, one for the creation of parameterized memory IPs and one for the creation of processor IPs.