An object-oriented CAE Framework for asynchronous Circuit Synthesis
U. Baake, Sorin Alexander Huss · 1995
The paper presents an interactive OSF/Motif-based design framework for high-level specification, analysis and synthesis of asynchronous control circuits. As novel contributions we propose an object-oriented graphical design environment including interfaces to external state of the art asynchronous circuit synthesis tools. The proposed design environment represents a powerful CAE design system including features like geometric representation of abstract graph-based input specifications, menu-based command entry, user-defined configuration of input devices and a comprehensive set of visualization and manipulation commands. Thus, by using this system, a circuit designer is able to specify and visualize asynchronous circuit behaviour on a high abstraction level and synthesize the corresponding logic using the built-in algorithms as well as other available non-graphical synthesis tools. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.