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From Algebraic Specifications to Correct VLSI Systems

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Publication Type technical report
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh C.
Title From Algebraic Specifications to Correct VLSI Systems
Date 1986-12
Description This dissertation presents a hardware design methodology in which hardware systems can be modeled as abstract data types and semi-automatically synthesized into VLSI circuits. The behavior of a module is specified at both the abstract and the realization levels, in a purely functional language, "Structure and Behavior Language" (SBL). In a top-down design refinement phase, SBL specifications are manually refined by writing realization specifications that are equivalent to existing abstract specifications. The refinement process is manually directed in such a way that the leaf modules are eventually available in a module library. In a bottom-up circuit synthesis phase, controller modules are automatically synthesized from SBL specifications, and are incorporated along with previously built data-path modules. Routing is performed using module interconnections that are also automatically inferred from SBL specifications. Formal verification and simulation are supported. Test-case selection for simulation can be guided by the equational invariants obtainable from algebraic specifications.
Type Text
Subject VLSI circuits; computers
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Gopalakrishnan, G. C. (1986). From algebraic specifications to correct VLSI systems.
Series University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report
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