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Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages

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Editors:
  1. Jean P. Mermet

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

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

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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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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Front Matter

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

    • Raymond Boute
    Pages 3-38

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

    • Dominique Borrione, Robert Piloty
    Pages 39-78

  5. Logic and Arithmetic in Hardware Description Languages

    • Alex Zamfirescu
    Pages 79-107

  6. System Level Design

    • Franz J. Rammig
    Pages 109-151

  7. Formal proofs from HDL descriptions

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

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

    • Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi
    Pages 195-230

  9. Synthesis applications of VHDL

    • Eugenio Villar, Pablo Sánchez
    Pages 231-262

  10. HDL-Driven Digital Simulation

    • Alec Stanculescu
    Pages 263-280

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

    • Alain Vachoux, Kevin Nolan
    Pages 281-330

  12. Rapid Development and Testing of Behavioral Models

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

  13. An Introduction to VHDL

    • Paul J. Menchini
    Pages 359-384

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

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

  15. The Hardware Description Language DACAPO III

    • Franz J. Rammig
    Pages 395-409

  16. CASCADE

    • Dominique Borrione
    Pages 411-430

  17. REGLAN

    • Robert Piloty
    Pages 431-446

  18. KARL and ABL

    • Reiner W. Hartenstein
    Pages 447-466

  19. Front Matter

    Pages 153-153
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  20. Front Matter

    Pages 357-357
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire ARTEMIS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

    Jean P. Mermet

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