Translation of hardware description languages to structured representation: a tool for digital system analysis
Daniela C. C. Peixoto, D.C. da Silva, José M. Mata, Claudionor N. Coelho, Antônio Otávio Fernandes · 2001
SDS (System Data Structure), part of a digital synthesis system, is an internal representation that captures data/operation and communication/synchronization aspects from the behavioral specification of a digital system. SDS divides design information into two graphs that describe the data flow behavior and control timing behavior. This representation is useful for synthesis and validation/verification. This paper presents the translation process from the hardware description language VHDL to SDS, basically the transformation of a behavioral specification to a structured representation.