A Proposal of Introducing the Object-Oriented Technique for Hardware Design and the Modularizing of VSI Core
Tsugio Nakamura, Hiroshi Kasahara · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2001
It has become possible to integrate many circuit blocks as a system on chip. However it is difficult to design all circuit blocks from the beginning. On such trends, VSI is being expected as a new distributing commodities of the circulation, and as a reusable core for the designing of a large scale ASIC. But there are some serious problems for the standardization, and ease of use of the core. In this paper, we propose a method of hardware modularizing which perform just as the data processing device in an object of the object-oriented technique. The user doesn't need to know the contents of an abstracted part called VC. It can get a result by sending a message with some parameters if we want to use the module. Therefore, it doesn't need to prepare for any programs and circuits newly. The hardware design method proposed here with the object-oriented technique is just for the VSI.