Waves-VHDL Integration for Common Applications

摘要

This report provides an explanation of how to use the IEEE Waveform and VectorExchange Specification (WAVES) language, an industry standard for representing digital stimulus and response data for both the design and test communities, in conjunction with the VHSIC Hardware Description Language. The common complaint heard through the user community has been the complexity and difficulty in using WAVES to verify a VHDL model. This work has addressed this complaint by creating four common library packages WAVES 1164 Pin Codes, WAVES 1164 Logic Value, WAVES 1164 Frames and WAVES 1164 Utilities as well as an automatic testbench generation tool to support the WAVES-VHDL testbench configuration and mitigate the complexity for the average user. The report first provides a discussion on each of these packages, so that the user may understand how the packages may be utilized. Then design examples are provided to demonstrate the usage and utility of the libraries as well as to walk the user through the usage of the testbench generation tool.