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VHDL
• What is VHDL?
Hardware
Description
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History of VHDL
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Usage
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• Design Specification
– unambiguous definition of components and interfaces in a
large design
• Design Simulation
– verify system/subsystem/chip performance prior to design
implementation
• Design Synthesis
– automated generation of a hardware design
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Digital System Design Flow
Requirements
• Design flows operate at
multiple levels of abstraction
Functional Design Behavioral Simulation
• Need a uniform description to
translate between levels
Register Transfer RTL Simulation • Increasing costs of design and
Level Design Validation
fabrication necessitate greater
Logic Simulation reliance on automation via
Logic Design Verification CAD tools
Fault Simulation
– $5M - $100M to design new
Timing Simulation chips
Circuit Design
Circuit Analysis – Increasing time to market
pressures
Physical Design Design Rule Checking
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Register Transfer
VHDL Model Level Design
Timing Extraction
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The Role of Hardware Description
Languages
BEHAVIORAL STRUCTURAL
algorithms processors
register transfers registers
Boolean expressions gates
transfer functions transistors
cells
modules
chips
boards
PHYSICAL [Gajski and Kuhn]
BEHAVIORAL STRUCTURAL
algorithms processors
register transfers registers
Boolean expressions gates
transfer functions transistors
cells
modules
chips
boards
PHYSICAL [Gajski and Kuhn]
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From V. K. Madisetti and T. W. Egolf,
“Virtual Prototyping of Embedded
Microcontroller Based DSP Systems,”
IEEE Micro, pp. 9–21, 1995.
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Role of VHDL
H Hardware
D Description
VHDL
L Language
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