SIMULATION DEVICE, CONVERSION APPARATUS, ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide asynchronous circuit design tools for those engineers who are versed in standard hardware description languages (HDLs), which is widely used in industry mainly for synchronous circuit design, to design asynchronous circuits with relative ease. PSOLUTION: The asynchronous circuit design tools include a translator provided with a transformation means for transforming a code written in an asynchronous circuit design language, which is based on a standard HDL and includes minimal primitives for allowing the communications between asynchronous processes, into a code written in a standard HDL, which is for synchronous circuit design. The codes transformed into the standard HDL can be functionally verified by using commercially available simulators, which are originally developed for verifying synchronous circuit design. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT