Virtual Components Design and Reuse

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Virtual Components — from Research to Business

   • Jürgen Haase

   Pages 1-11

3. Evaluation of Technology and the Medea Design Automation Roadmap

   • Joseph Borel, Anton Sauer, Ralf Seepold

   Pages 13-32

4. Productivity in VC Reuse: Linking Soc Platforms to Abstract Systems Design Methodology

   • Grant Martin

   Pages 33-46

5. Software IP In Embedded Systems

   • Carsten Böke, Carsten Ditze, H. J. Eickerling, Uwe Glässer, Bernd Kleinjohann, Franz Rammig et al.

   Pages 47-64

6. Ardid: A Tool and a Model for the Quality Analysis of VHDL Based Designs

   • Yago Torroja, Felipe Machado, Fernando Casado, Eduardo de la Torre, Teresa Riesgo, Javier Uceda

   Pages 65-80

7. A VHDL Analysis Environment for Design Reuse

   • Claudio Costi, D. Michael Miller

   Pages 81-94

8. Lambda-Block Analysis of VHDL for Design Reuse

   • William Fornaciari, Salvatore Minonne, Fabio Salice, Massimo Vincenzi

   Pages 95-103

9. IP Retrieval by Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems

   • Manfred Koegst, Jörg Schneider, Ralph Bergmann, Ivo Vollrath

   Pages 105-118

10. Cryptographic Reuse Library

    • Andreas Schubert, Ralf Jährig, Walter Anheier

    Pages 119-130

11. A VHDL Reuse Component Model for Mixed Abstraction Level Simulation and Behavioral Synthesis

    • Cordula Hansen, Oliver Bringmann, Wolfgang Rosenstiel

    Pages 131-144

12. Virtual Component Interfaces

    • M. M. Kamal Hashmi

    Pages 145-157

13. A Method for Interface Customization of Soft IP Cores

    • Robert Siegmund, Dietmar Müller

    Pages 159-170

14. Modeling Assistant — A Flexible VCM Generator in VHDL

    • Andrzej Pulka

    Pages 171-182

15. Reusing IPS to Implement a Sparc® Soc

    • Serafín Olcoz, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Denis Navarro

    Pages 183-193

16. Hardwwwired: Using the web as Repository of VHDL Components

    • Adriano Sarmento, Jorge Fernandes, Edna Barros

    Pages 195-205

17. Back Matter

    Pages 207-229

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Design reuse is not just a topic of research but a real industrial necessity in the microelectronic domain and thus driving the competitiveness of relevant areas like for example telecommunication or automotive. Most companies have already dedicated a department or a central unit that transfer design reuse into reality. All main EDA conferences include a track to the topic, and even specific conferences have been established in this area, both in the USA and in Europe.
Virtual Components Design and Reuse presents a selection of articles giving a mature and consolidated perspective to design reuse from different points of view. The authors stem from all relevant areas: research and academia, IP providers, EDA vendors and industry.
Some classical topics in design reuse, like specification and generation of components, IP retrieval and cataloguing or interface customisation, are revisited and discussed in depth. Moreover, new hot topics are presented, among them IP quality, platform-based reuse, software IP, IP security, business models for design reuse, and major initiatives like the MEDEA EDA Roadmap.

• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Embedded System
• Embedded Systems
• Hardwarebeschreibungssprache
• Interface
• Simulation
• VHDL
• automation
• communication
• model
• modeling
• tables

• Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe (FZI), Germany

  Ralf Seepold, Natividad Martínez Madrid

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