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Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Jean P. Mermet

    1. Laboratoire ARTEMIS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series E: (NSSE, volume 249)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Fundamentals of Hardware Description Languages and Declarative Languages

      • Raymond Boute
      Pages 3-38

    3. CONLAN : Presentation of Basic Principles, Applications and Relation to VHDL

      • Dominique Borrione, Robert Piloty
      Pages 39-78

    4. Logic and Arithmetic in Hardware Description Languages

      • Alex Zamfirescu
      Pages 79-107

    5. System Level Design

      • Franz J. Rammig
      Pages 109-151

  3. Applications to formal proofs, high-level synthesis, multilevel simulation and hierarchical testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Formal proofs from HDL descriptions

      • Dominique Borrione, Hans Eveking, Laurence Pierre
      Pages 155-193

    3. High-Level Synthesis in a Production Environment : Methodology and Algorithms

      • Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi
      Pages 195-230

    4. Synthesis applications of VHDL

      • Eugenio Villar, Pablo Sánchez
      Pages 231-262

    5. HDL-Driven Digital Simulation

      • Alec Stanculescu
      Pages 263-280

    6. Analog and Mixed-Level Simulation with Implications to VHDL

      • Alain Vachoux, Kevin Nolan
      Pages 281-330

    7. Rapid Development and Testing of Behavioral Models

      • James R. Armstrong, Alexander Honcharik
      Pages 331-356

  4. Introduction to Hardware Description Languages implemented in the 80’s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 357-357
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    2. An Introduction to VHDL

      • Paul J. Menchini
      Pages 359-384

    3. ELLA, a Language for the Design of Digital Systems

      • John D. Morison, Cleland O. Newton
      Pages 385-394

    4. The Hardware Description Language DACAPO III

      • Franz J. Rammig
      Pages 395-409

    5. CASCADE

      • Dominique Borrione
      Pages 411-430

    6. REGLAN

      • Robert Piloty
      Pages 431-446

    7. KARL and ABL

      • Reiner W. Hartenstein
      Pages 447-466
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The second half of this century will remain as the era of proliferation of electronic computers. They did exist before, but they were mechanical. During next century they may perform other mutations to become optical or molecular or even biological. Actually, all these aspects are only fancy dresses put on mathematical machines. This was always recognized to be true in the domain of software, where "machine" or "high level" languages are more or less rigourous, but immaterial, variations of the universaly accepted mathematical language aimed at specifying elementary operations, functions, algorithms and processes. But even a mathematical machine needs a physical support, and this is what hardware is all about. The invention of hardware description languages (HDL's) in the early 60's, was an attempt to stay longer at an abstract level in the design process and to push the stage of physical implementation up to the moment when no more technology independant decisions can be taken. It was also an answer to the continuous, exponential growth of complexity of systems to be designed. This problem is common to hardware and software and may explain why the syntax of hardware description languages has followed, with a reasonable delay of ten years, the evolution of the programming languages: at the end of the 60's they were" Algol like" , a decade later "Pascal like" and now they are "C or ADA-like". They have also integrated the new concepts of advanced software specification languages.

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  • Laboratoire ARTEMIS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

    Jean P. Mermet

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