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By Prabhat Mishra

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ISBN-13: 9780080558370

ISBN-10: 0123742870

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Effective layout of embedded processors performs a serious position in embedded structures layout. Processor description languages and their linked specification, exploration and quick prototyping methodologies are used to discover the absolute best layout for a given set of purposes below a number of layout constraints, akin to quarter, energy and function. This publication is the 1st, accomplished survey of contemporary structure description languages and should be a useful reference for embedded procedure architects, designers, builders, and validation engineers. Readers will see that using specific structure description languages will result in productiveness profits in designing specific (application-specific) forms of embedded processors. * accomplished insurance of all glossy structure description languages... use the appropriate ADL to layout your processor to suit your application;* newest details on hand approximately every one structure description language from the developers...save time chasing down trustworthy documentation;* Describes how each one structure desccription language allows key layout automation projects, resembling simulation, synthesis and testing...fit the ADL on your layout cycle;

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Mishra, N. Dutt, N. Krishnamurthy, and M. Abadir. A top-down methodology for validation of microprocessors. IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 21 (2): 122-131, 2004. [44] R. Bryant. Symbolic simulation--Techniques and applications. In Proc. of Design Automation Conference (DAC), pages 517- 521, 1990. 1 Origin of the Language In the early seventies of the last century, Gerhard Zimmermann headed a group of researchers at the radio astronomy observatory of the University in Kiel, Germany. The observatory was used to measure the radio signals from the sun.

Use of ADL specification improves the overall validation effort, since both simulator and directed tests can be automatically generated from the ADL specification, as shown in Fig. 6. The generated tests can be applied on the hardware implementation as well as on the generated cycle-accurate simulator (reference model), and the outputs can be compared to check the correctness of the implementation. Since ADL specification can be used to generate simulation models at different levels of abstraction, the same validation methodology can be used for verifying simulators.

A set of tests can be applied on both specification (or its simulatable model) and implementation, and the corresponding outputs can be compared. However, in case of specification validation, we have only one model that needs to be verified. As a result, property checking (or model checking) is very suitable for specification validation. 7 Validation of ADL specification. checking ensures that a specification model satisfies a set of properties (or intended behaviors). Fig. 7 shows a property checking-based flow for specification validation.

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