FDL'98

Reusing VHDL Soft-Cores by Means of Using Appropriate Worspace Management and Navigation Tools

S. Olcoz
olcoz@sidsa.es
J.L. Avellano
avellano@sidsa.es
A. Castellví
 
I. Hidalgo
 
C. Herrero
 
SIDSA
Ronda de Poniente 8, 2-A. 28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid). Spain.

P. Plaza
pierre@tid.es
A. Morandeau
 
J.C. Díaz
jdiaz@tid.es
J. Riesco
jacobo@geocities.com
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Emilio Vargas, 6, 28043 Madrid. Spain.

Forum on Design Languages (FDL'98)
Lausanne (Switzerland). September 6-11, 1998.

ABSTRACT
A VHDL Soft-Cores design reuse methodology has to be supported by a new wave of appropriate tools. Among these design reuse tools, this work presents the VHDL-ICE Workspace Management and its Navigation tools: The VHDL Design Unit Navigator, the VHDL Design Hierarchy Navigator, the Simulation Model Navigator and the VHDL Simulation Debugger.
The advantages offered by the VHDL-ICE environment and, specifically, by the navigation tools are presented from the tool developers' point of view, together with the user's perspective provided by a Spanish Telecom company when developing a circuit reusing Soft-Cores.


Related files:
[Paper (PDF)] fdl98.pdf Paper (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format PDF)
[Slides (PDF)] fdl98pp.pdf Presentation Slides (PDF)


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