Virtual Components Design and Reuse

by Seepold, Ralf; Madrid, Natividad Martinez

• ISBN13: 9780792372615
• ISBN10: 0792372611
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Design reuse is not just a topic of research but a real industrial necessity in the microelectronic domain and thus driving the competitiveness of relevant areas like for example telecommunication or automotive. Most companies have already dedicated a department or a central unit that transfer design reuse into reality. All main EDA conferences include a track to the topic, and even specific conferences have been established in this area, both in the USA and in Europe. Virtual Components Design and Reuse presents a selection of articles giving a mature and consolidated perspective to design reuse from different points of view. The authors stem from all relevant areas: research and academia, IP providers, EDA vendors and industry. Some classical topics in design reuse, like specification and generation of components, IP retrieval and cataloguing or interface customisation, are revisited and discussed in depth. Moreover, new hot topics are presented, among them IP quality, platform-based reuse, software IP, IP security, business models for design reuse, and major initiatives like the MEDEA EDA Roadmap.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xiii
Virtual Components - From Research to Business	1	(12)
Jurgen Haase
Application of Virtual Components	2	(5)
The Virtual Components Business	7	(3)
Research in the Reuse Field	10	(1)
Conclusions	11	(2)
Evaluation of Technology and the Medea Design Automation Roadmap	13	(20)
Joseph Borel
Anton Sauer
Ralf Seepold
Introduction	13	(1)
Targets of EDA Activities	14	(2)
The Semiconductor Industry Challenge	16	(3)
Roadmap Coverage	19	(3)
IP Reuse Roadmap	22	(10)
Conclusion	32	(1)
Productivity in VC Reuse: Linking SOC Platforms to Abstract Systems Design Methodology	33	(14)
Grant Martin
Overview	33	(1)
The Nature of System Design	34	(1)
SOC Integration Platforms	34	(2)
Function-Architecture Co-Design	36	(3)
Linking the two Concepts: Platform-Based System Co-Design	39	(4)
Multimedia Examples	43	(2)
Other Applications of Platform-Based System Design	45	(1)
Conclusion and Future	46	(1)
Software IP in Embedded Systems	47	(18)
Carsten Boke
Carsten Ditze
H.J. Eickerling
Uwe Glasser
Bernd Kleinjohann
Franz Rammig
Wolfgang Thronicke
Introduction	48	(1)
CORBA: The Base Technology for Integration	49	(2)
Types of Coupling for Software IP	51	(2)
Bridging Semantics: The ASM Approach	53	(2)
Reuse and Workflows - towards Intelligent Resource Management	55	(1)
Document Exchange in Software IP Frameworks	56	(2)
An Application Example: Building Real-Time Communication Systems from Software IP	58	(7)
ARDID: A Tool and a Model for the Quality Analysis of VHDL Based Designs	65	(16)
Yago Torroja
Felipe Machado
Fernando Casado
Eduardo de la Torre
Teresa Riesgo
Javier Uceda
Quality Attributes of VHDL Designs	65	(2)
ARDID: A VHDL Quality Analysis Tool	67	(6)
Inside ARDID: Simplified Hardware Model	73	(4)
Experimental Results	77	(2)
Conclusions	79	(2)
A VHDL Analysis Environment for Design Reuse	81	(14)
Claudio Costi
D. Michael Miller
Introduction	81	(1)
Reuse of Soft Components	82	(1)
Valet Project	83	(2)
From VHDL Source Code to Design Knowledge	85	(9)
Conclusions	94	(1)
Lambda-Block Analysis of VHDL for Design Reuse	95	(10)
William Fornaciari
Salvatore Minonne
Fabio Salice
Massimo Vincenzi
Introduction	95	(2)
Overview of the global Environment	97	(1)
Testbench Orthogonality	98	(1)
Lambda-blocks Analysis	99	(3)
The Reuse Experiment	102	(1)
Concluding Remarks	103	(2)
IP Retrieval by Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems	105	(14)
Manfred Koegst
Jorg Schneider
Ralph Bergmann
Ivo Vollrath
Introduction	105	(1)
Archiving and Retrieval in the Reuse Process	106	(2)
Modelling and Retrieval by case-based Reasoning	108	(4)
Concept of an Adapted Database Management	112	(3)
Summary	115	(1)
Example	116	(3)
Cryptographic Reuse Library	119	(12)
Andreas Schubert
Ralf Jahrig
Walter Anheier
Introduction	119	(1)
Library Concept	120	(3)
CVC Structure	123	(4)
CVC interfaces	127	(2)
Conclusions	129	(2)
A VHDL Reuse Component Model for Mixed Abstraction Level Simulation and Behavioral Synthesis	131	(14)
Cordula Hansen
Oliver Bringmann
Wolfgang Rosenstiel
Introduction	131	(1)
A VHDL Reuse Component Model for Simulation and Synthesis	132	(2)
The Frame Component Concept	134	(2)
Reuse Component Library and CADDY-II	136	(2)
Frame Component and Synthesis	138	(2)
Frame Component and Simulation	140	(4)
Conclusion	144	(1)
Virtual Component Interfaces	145	(14)
M. M. Kamal Hashmi
Introduction	145	(1)
Definitions and Terminology	146	(1)
VC Creation and ReUse	146	(1)
Cutting the Cost of ReUse	147	(1)
Interface Based Design	148	(6)
VCI Specification Standards Efforts	154	(1)
VSI SLD Interface Documentation Standard	154	(2)
VHDL Extensions for Interfaces and System Design	156	(1)
Conclusion	157	(1)
Acknowledgements	157	(2)
A Method for Interface Customization of Soft IP Cores	159	(12)
Robert Siegmund
Dietmar Muller
Introduction	159	(2)
Method	161	(5)
Interface Synthesis	166	(3)
Results	169	(1)
Conclusions and Future Work	170	(1)
Modeling Assistant - A Flexible VCM Generator in VHDL	171	(12)
Andrzej Pulka
Introduction	171	(1)
Reusability of VHDL Models	171	(1)
Data Model	172	(4)
Generation Entity of Model (GEM)	176	(1)
Experiments and Results	177	(3)
Summary	180	(3)
Reusing IPS to Implement a SPARC® SOC	183	(12)
Serafin Olcoz
Alfredo Gutierrez
Denis Navarro
Introduction	183	(1)
SPARC μProcessor IP	184	(4)
μProcessor Peripherals for Embedded Systems	188	(1)
A μController for a Scalable Remote Terminal Unit	189	(2)
CoMES: Co-Design Methodology for Embedded Systems	191	(1)
Conclusion and Future Work	192	(3)
Hardwwwired: Using the Web as Repository of VHDL Components	195	(12)
Adriano Sarmento
Jorge Fernandes
Edna Barros
Introduction	195	(2)
Hardwwwired: The Architecture	197	(1)
Mapping VHDL Descriptions Into JAVA Objects	198	(1)
Security Policies	199	(2)
Designing a CPU With Hardwwwired: A Case Study	201	(3)
Conclusion and Future Work	204	(3)
References	207	(16)
Index	223	(4)
Glossary	227