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VHDL for Simulation, Synthesis and Formal Proofs of Hardware

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Jean Mermet

    1. Institut Méditerranéen de Technologie, Germany

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 183)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Formal Verifications and Semantics

    1. Developing a Formal Semantic Definition of VHDL

      • Philip A. Wilsey
      Pages 245-256

  2. System Level Design and Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Approaching System Level Design

      • Franz J. Rammig
      Pages 259-276

    3. Incremental Design—Application of a Software-based Method for High-level Hardware Design with VHDL

      • Andreas Hohl
      Pages 277-290

    4. Introducing CASCADE control graphs in VHDL

      • Claude Le Faou, Jean Mermet
      Pages 291-307
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The success of VHDL since it has been balloted in 1987 as an IEEE standard may look incomprehensible to the large population of hardware designers, who had never heared of Hardware Description Languages before (for at least 90% of them), as well as to the few hundreds of specialists who had been working on these languages for a long time (25 years for some of them). Until 1988, only a very small subset of designers, in a few large companies, were used to describe their designs using a proprietary HDL, or sometimes a HDL inherited from a University when some software environment happened to be developped around it, allowing usability by third parties. A number of benefits were definitely recognized to this practice, such as functional verification of a specification through simulation, first performance evaluation of a tentative design, and sometimes automatic microprogram generation or even automatic high level synthesis. As there was apparently no market for HDL's, the ECAD vendors did not care about them, start-up companies were seldom able to survive in this area, and large users of proprietary tools were spending more and more people and money just to maintain their internal system.

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  • Institut Méditerranéen de Technologie, Germany

    Jean Mermet

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