Peng, Z. (1985). A Unified Approach to Design Representation and Synthesis of VLSI Systems. Technical Report LiTH-IDA-R-85-18, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. Also in Proc. of the 19th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 8-10, 1986. (bibtex),
Abstract: This paper describes a unified design representation and its application in synthesizing VLSI systems. The synthesis process consists of sequence of semantics-preserving mappings transforming a program-like behavioral description into a structural description, which may then be partitioned into several potential asynchronous modules with well-defined interfaces. The proposed design representation model leads to the effective use of CAD and automatic tools in the synthesis process and the possibility of verifying some aspects of a design before it is completed.
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