Web-Based Analysis And Distributed IP

The web presents an opportunity for realizing a distributed design framework supporting multidisciplinary, multi-organizational collaborative design and analysis activities. The potential for deploying online, reusable parts libraries for virtual prototyping and design analysis exists. However, several issues must be solved before vendors will be willing to provide online access to their intellectual property (IP). This paper reviews the main problems facing the web-based design and analysis community before the successful application of web-based virtual prototyping can become a reality. To amplify and solidify our arguments, the application domain of web-based hardware/software co-design is used

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Extensions to VHDL for Abstraction of Concurrency and Communication

ion of Concurrency and Communication * Peter J. Ashenden Dept. Computer Science University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Australia [email protected] Philip A. Wilsey Dept. ECECS, PO Box 210030 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA [email protected] Abstract This paper describes extensions to VHDL to support system -level behavioral modeling by providing more abstract forms of communication and concurrency than those currently in the language. The report summarizes design objectives and issues that must be considered in developing such extensions, and presents definitions of our extensions. The extensions for communication consist of channel types, channel objects, dynamically allocated channels, and message passing statements. The extensions for concurrency consist of process declarations and static and dynamic process instantiation statements. Use of the extensions is illustrated with examples. 1. Introduction As the complexity of integrated hardware and softwar..