Download or read book Femto VHDL written by John P. Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "The design of digital devices now resembles traditional computer programming. Components are specified in a specialised form of programming language known as a hardware description language. Programs written in such languages are then executed to simulate the behaviour of the hardware they describe. These simulations cannot be exhaustive in most situations, so result in high, yet incomplete, confidence that the proper behaviour has been achieved. The formal analysis of programming languages provides ways of mathematically proving properties of programs. These properties apply to behaviours resulting from all possible inputs rather just than a subset of them.

Download or read book Formal Semantics for VHDL written by Carlos Delgado Kloos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is recognized that formal design and verification methods are an important requirement for the attainment of high quality system designs. The field has evolved enormously during the last few years, resulting in the fact that formal design and verification methods are nowadays supported by several tools, both commercial and academic. If different tools and users are to generate and read the same language then it is necessary that the same semantics is assigned by them to all constructs and elements of the language. The current IEEE standard VHDL language reference manual (LRM) tries to define VHDL as well as possible in a descriptive way, explaining the semantics in English. But rigor and clarity are very hard to maintain in a semantics defined in this way, and that has already given rise to many misconceptions and contradictory interpretations. Formal Semantics for VHDL is the first book that puts forward a cohesive set of semantics for the VHDL language. The chapters describe several semantics each based on a different underlying formalism: two of them use Petri nets as target language, and two of them higher order logic. Two use functional concepts, and finally another uses the concept of evolving algebras. Formal Semantics for VHDL is essential reading for researchers in formal methods and can be used as a text for an advanced course on the subject.

Download or read book Formal Semantics and Proof Techniques for Optimizing VHDL Models written by Kothanda Umamageswaran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written expressly for hardware designers, this book presents a formal model of VHDL clearly specifying both the static and dynamic semantics of VHDL. It provides a mathematical framework for representing VHDL constructs and shows how those constructs can be formally manipulated to reason about VHDL.

Download or read book A Formalisation of the VHDL Simulation Cycle written by John P. Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) has been gaining wide acceptance as a unifying HDL. It is, however, still a language in which the only way of validating a design is by careful simulation. With the aim of better understanding VHDL's particular simulation process and eventually reasoning about it, we have developed a formalisation of VHDL's simulation cycle for a subset of the language. It has also been possible to embed our semantics in the Cambridge Higher-Order Logic (HOL) system and derive interesting properties about specific VHDL programs."

Download or read book Hardware Description Languages and their Applications written by Carlos Delgado Kloos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades Computer Hardware Description Languages (CHDLs) have been a rapidly expanding subject area due to a number of factors, including the advancing complexity of digital electronics, the increasing prevalence of generic and programmable components of software-hardware and the migration of VLSI design to high level synthesis based on HDLs. Currently the subject has reached the consolidation phase in which languages and standards are being increasingly used, at the same time as the scope is being broadened to additional application areas. This book presents the latest developments in this area and provides a forum from which readers can learn from the past and look forward to what the future holds.

Download or read book Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and its Applications written by L.J.M. Claesen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HOL system is a higher order logic theorem proving system implemented at Edinburgh University, Cambridge University and INRIA. Its many applications, from the verification of hardware designs at all levels to the verification of programs and communication protocols are considered in depth in this volume. Other systems based on higher order logic, namely Nuprl and LAMBDA are also discussed. Features given particular consideration are: novel developments in higher order logic and its implementations in HOL; formal design and verification methodologies for hardware and software; public domain availability of the HOL system. Papers addressing these issues have been divided as follows: Mathematical Logic; Induction; General Modelling and Proofs; Formalizing and Modelling of Automata; Program Verification; Hardware Description Language Semantics; Hardware Verification Methodologies; Simulation in Higher Order Logic; Extended Uses of Higher Order Logic. Academic and industrial researchers involved in formal hardware and software design and verification methods should find the publication especially interesting and it is hoped it will also provide a useful reference tool for those working at software institutes and within the electronics industries.

Download or read book Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design written by Mandayam Srivas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design, FMCAD '96, held in Palo Alto, California, USA, in November 1996. The 25 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 65 submissions; also included are three invited survey papers and four tutorial contributions. The volume covers all relevant formal aspects of work in computer-aided systems design, including verification, synthesis, and testing.

Download or read book VHDL Basics to Programming written by Gaganpreet Kaur and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Systems Approach to Cyber Security written by A. Roychoudhury and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our ever-increasing reliance on computer technology in every field of modern life, the need for continuously evolving and improving cyber security remains a constant imperative. This book presents the 3 keynote speeches and 10 papers delivered at the 2nd Singapore Cyber Security R&D Conference (SG-CRC 2017), held in Singapore, on 21-22 February 2017. SG-CRC 2017 focuses on the latest research into the techniques and methodologies of cyber security. The goal is to construct systems which are resistant to cyber-attack, enabling the construction of safe execution environments and improving the security of both hardware and software by means of mathematical tools and engineering approaches for the design, verification and monitoring of cyber-physical systems. Covering subjects which range from messaging in the public cloud and the use of scholarly digital libraries as a platform for malware distribution, to low-dimensional bigram analysis for mobile data fragment classification, this book will be of interest to all those whose business it is to improve cyber security.

Download or read book Higher Level Hardware Synthesis written by Richard Sharp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 1960s, when a single chip contained an average of 50 transistors, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were doubling in complexity every year. In an in?uential article published by Electronics Magazine in 1965, Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the next 10 years. Despite being criticized for its “unrealistic optimism,” Moore’s prediction has remained valid for far longer than even he imagined: today, chips built using state-- the-art techniques typically contain several million transistors. The advances in fabrication technology that have supported Moore’s law for four decades have fuelled the computer revolution. However,this exponential increase in transistor density poses new design challenges to engineers and computer scientists alike. New techniques for managing complexity must be developed if circuits are to take full advantage of the vast numbers of transistors available. In this monograph we investigate both (i) the design of high-level languages for hardware description, and (ii) techniques involved in translating these hi- level languages to silicon. We propose SAFL, a ?rst-order functional language designedspeci?callyforbehavioralhardwaredescription,anddescribetheimp- mentation of its associated silicon compiler. We show that the high-level pr- erties of SAFL allow one to exploit program analyses and optimizations that are not employed in existing synthesis systems. Furthermore, since SAFL fully abstracts the low-leveldetails of the implementation technology, we show how it can be compiled to a range of di?erent design styles including fully synchronous design and globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) circuits.

Download or read book Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The System Designer s Guide to VHDL AMS written by Peter J. Ashenden and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a world that is, predominantly, neither digital nor electronic. To respond to this design challenge, the industry has developed and standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified design language for modeling digital, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology systems. VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to bring the successful HDL modeling methodology of digital electronic systems design to these new design disciplines.Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden join best-selling author Peter Ashenden in teaching designers how to use VHDL-AMS to model these complex systems. This comprehensive tutorial and reference provides detailed descriptions of both the syntax and semantics of the language and of successful modeling techniques. It assumes no previous knowledge of VHDL, but instead teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS in an integrated fashion, just as it would be used by designers of these complex, integrated systems. - Explores the design of an electric-powered, unmanned aerial vehicle system (UAV) in five separate case studies to illustrate mixed-signal, mixed-technology, power systems, communication systems, and full system modeling.

Download or read book Digital Electronics and Design with VHDL written by Volnei A. Pedroni and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Electronics and Design with VHDL offers a friendly presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of modern digital design. Unlike any other book in this field, transistor-level implementations are also included, which allow the readers to gain a solid understanding of a circuit's real potential and limitations, and to develop a realistic perspective on the practical design of actual integrated circuits. Coverage includes the largest selection available of digital circuits in all categories (combinational, sequential, logical, or arithmetic); and detailed digital design techniques, with a thorough discussion on state-machine modeling for the analysis and design of complex sequential systems. Key technologies used in modern circuits are also described, including Bipolar, MOS, ROM/RAM, and CPLD/FPGA chips, as well as codes and techniques used in data storage and transmission. Designs are illustrated by means of complete, realistic applications using VHDL, where the complete code, comments, and simulation results are included. This text is ideal for courses in Digital Design, Digital Logic, Digital Electronics, VLSI, and VHDL; and industry practitioners in digital electronics. - Comprehensive coverage of fundamental digital concepts and principles, as well as complete, realistic, industry-standard designs - Many circuits shown with internal details at the transistor-level, as in real integrated circuits - Actual technologies used in state-of-the-art digital circuits presented in conjunction with fundamental concepts and principles - Six chapters dedicated to VHDL-based techniques, with all VHDL-based designs synthesized onto CPLD/FPGA chips

Download or read book Advances in Hardware Design and Verification written by Hon Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHARM '97 is the ninth in a series of working conferences devoted to the development and use of formal techniques in digital hardware design and verification. This series is held in collaboration with IFIP WG 10.5. Previous meetings were held in Europe every other year.

Download or read book Formal Techniques in Real time and Fault tolerant Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Design Recipes for FPGAs Using Verilog and VHDL written by Peter Wilson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives 'easy-to-find' design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code. Written in an informal and 'easy-to-grasp' style, it goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. This book's 'easy-to-find' structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a 'road map' to solving their specific design problem. The book also provides advanced techniques to create 'real world' designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. This text will appeal to FPGA designers of all levels of experience. It is also an ideal resource for embedded system development engineers, hardware and software engineers, and undergraduates and postgraduates studying an embedded system which focuses on FPGA design. - A rich toolbox of practical FGPA design techniques at an engineer's finger tips - Easy-to-find structure that allows the engineer to quickly locate the information to solve their FGPA design problem, and obtain the level of detail and understanding needed

Download or read book Specification and Validation Methods written by Egon Börger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a high-level introduction to the methods for specification and validation of computing systems, with a description of new developments in addition to state-of-the-art techniques. The chapters span the field, from the semantics of programming languages and their implementation (e.g. PROLOG, C++) to architecture design (VHDL), parallel and distributed programs, and protocols (e.g. kermit). The book is unique for two reasons. First, it combines an up-to-date survey with a systematic presentation of recent advances and new ideas and approaches. Second, its themes range from software to hardware design, and the proposed methods are applied to specification and validation of complex real life computing systems. Such an approach makes this an important book for researchers and graduate students in computer science and systems programmers.