MERGING INFRASTRUCTURE IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To design circuits in a high-level graphical design environment without requiring HDL design knowledge. PSOLUTION: A development environment includes a graphical design tool and structure agents. The graphical design tool allows a designer to design primary logic components of the circuit. The design tool generates modules, which express the primary logic components, using a hardware description language, and the modules include abstraction references for infrastructures of the circuit. The structure agents synthesize the modules to a netlist and merges them with infrastructure descriptions of the circuit. Infrastructures are generated in a development environment independent from the design tool. The structure agents include an adjuster to adjust the modules, and the adjustment of the modules includes that the abstraction references for the infrastructures are replaced with actual references to be used within the infrastructures. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI