Reuse of hardware components

Details Reuse of hardware components Reuse of hardware components

2006-09-26

2006-09-26

Frejd, Russell (Department: 2128)

Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and em

Simulating electronic device or electrical system

Circuit simulation

C703S002000, C703S015000, C717S108000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07113901

ABSTRACT:
A method for designing an electronic system having at least one digital part. The method includes representing a behavioral description of the system as a first set of objects with a first set of relations therebetween. Furthermore, the method includes refining said behavioral description into an implementable description of said system, said implementable description being represented as a second set of objects with a second set of relations therebetween. Also, the method includes retaining at least one of said second objects for reuse in the design of a second electronic system.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5493508 (1996-02-01), Dangelo et al.
patent: 5544067 (1996-08-01), Rostoker et al.
patent: 5623418 (1997-04-01), Rosotker et al.
patent: 5726902 (1998-03-01), Mahmood et al.
patent: 5870585 (1999-02-01), Stapleton
patent: 5923867 (1999-07-01), Hand
patent: 5933356 (1999-08-01), Rostoker et al.
patent: 6064819 (2000-05-01), Franssen et al.
patent: 6233540 (2001-05-01), Schaumont et al.
patent: 6324678 (2001-11-01), Damgelo et al.
patent: 6606588 (2003-08-01), Schaumont et al.
patent: 0 772 140 (1997-07-01), None
Yeh et al., G.K. Operas in a DSP CAD Environment, Proceedings of the European Design Automation Conference, ACM, Sep. 1994, pp. 130-135.
Tanurhan et al., Y. An Approach for Integrated Specification and Design of Real-Time Systems, Proceedings of the EURO-VHDL '96 and European Design Automation, Sep. 1996, pp. 258-263.
Poechmueller et al., P. A CAD Tool for Designing Large, Fault-Tolerant VLSI Arrays, Proceedings of the First Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 1991, pp. 132-137.
Altmeyer, et al. “Generating ECAD Framework Code from Abstract Models,” Proc. of the 32nd ACM/IEEE Conf. on Design Automation, 1995, pp. 88-93.
Basu, et al. “DOORS: An Object-Oriented CAD System for High Level Synthesis,” IEE Proceedings—Computers and Digital Techniques, 1997, vol. 144 Issue 5, pp. 331-342.
Bill Lin. “System Design Tools for Broadband Telecom Network Applications” XP-002114729, 1996, pp. 23-26.
Bolsens, et al. “Hardware/Software Co-Design of Digital Telecommunications Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 1997, vol. 85, Issue 3, pp. 391-418.
Bredenfeld et al. “Tool Integration and Construction using General Graph-based Design Representations,” Proc. of the 32nd ACM/IEEE Conf. on Design Automation, 1995.
Burr, et al. “OPERAS in a DSP CAD Environment,” Proceedings of the European Design Automation Conference, 1994, pp. 130-135.
Chao, et al. “Efficient Retiming and Unfolding,” IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1993, vol. 1, pp. 421-424.
De Micheli, et al. “The Olympus Synthesis System,” IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1990, vol. 7, Issue 5, pp. 37-53.
Hylander and Meador. “Object Oriented VLSI Design Automation for Pulse Coded Neural Networks,” 1994 IEEE International conference on Neural Networks, 1994, vol. 3, pp. 1825-1829.
Lanneer, et al. “An Object-Oriented Framework Supporting the full High-Level Synthesis Trajectory” Computer Hardware Description Languages and their Applications, XP-002114731, 1991, pp. 301-320.
Lavenier and McConnell. “From Behavioral to RTL Models: An Approach,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, 1994, pp. 153-161.
Moon, et al. “An Object-Oriented VHDL Design Environment,” Proc. of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., 1990, pp. 431-436.
Nagasmay, et al. “Specification, Planning and Synthesis in a VHDL Design Environment,” IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1992, vol. 9, Issue 2, pp. 58-68.
Pangrle, et al. “An Integrated Multi-level Synthesis System,” First International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, 1990, pp. 167-175.
Sarkar, et al. “Synchronization of Communicating Modules and Processes in High Level Synthesis,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on VLSI Design, 1995, pp. 87-92.
Schaumont, et al. “Synthesis of Multi-rate and Variable Rate Circuits for High Speed Telecommunications Applications” XP-002114732, 1997, pp. 542-546.
Stoel, et al. “VIOOL for Hardware/Software Codesign,” Proc. 1995 Inter. Symp. on Sys. Eng. of Computer Bases Systems, 1995, pp. 333-340.
Van Rompaey, et al. “CoWare—A Design Environment for Heterogeneous Hardware/Software Systems,” Proc. EURO-DAC 1996, pp. 252-257.
Vemuri, et al. “An Integrated Multicomponent Synthesis Environment for MCMs,” Computer, 1993, vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 62-74.
Verkest, et al. “Co-Ware—A Design Environment for Heterogeneous Hardware/Software Systems” Design Automation for Embedded Systems, XP-022114730, 1996, pp. 357-386.
Woo, et al. “Codesign from Cospecification” Computing Practices, XP-002114728, 1994, pp. 42-47.
Yang, et al. L.; Perkowski, M.A.; Smith, D.; “Object-Oriented Design of an Expandable Hardware Description Language Analyzer for a High Level Synthesis System,” Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1992, vol. 2. pp.
York, et al. “An Integrated Environment for HDL Verification,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Verilog HDL Conference, 1995, pp. 9-18.
John Forest “Implementation-Independent Descriptions Using an Object-Oriented Approach”, In “Co Design—Computer-Aided Software/Hardware Engineering”, IEEE Press Marketing, 1995, pp. 263-278.
Swamy, Somitri, et al.; OO-VHDL. Object-oriented extensions to VHDL;Computer, vol. 28 (No. 10): pp. 18-26; Oct. 1995.
Gupta, Rajesh K., et al.; Using a Programming Language for Digital System Design;IEEE Design&Test Of Computers; pp. 72-80; Apr.-Jun. 1997.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Reuse of hardware components does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Reuse of hardware components, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Reuse of hardware components will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3606096