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In this chapter, the application of object-oriented techniques to the modeling and design of hardware for embedded systems is presented. The use of these techniques is an example of cross fertilization from the software domain to the hardware domain. This work brings together several ideas common to both hardware and software, such as state, information hiding, specialization, reuse, families of components, and virtual machines. The potential advantages of object-oriented techniques when applied to hardware design are discussed and illustrated on several examples using C++, which supports user-defined data types and inheritance. It is shown that data decomposition, a decomposition technique based on abstract data types, can be applied recursively to hardware components, supporting complexity management and refinement. A representation that captures this decomposition technique, referred to as the decomposition graph, is also presented.
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Kumar, S., Aylor, J.H., Johnson, B.W., Wulf, W.A. (1996). Object-Oriented Modeling of Hardware for Embedded Systems. In: Bergé, JM., Levia, O., Rouillard, J. (eds) Object-Oriented Modeling. Current Issues in Electronic Modeling, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1349-6_2
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