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发表于 2012-8-24 17:21:29
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Abstract. Hardware description languages (HDL) such as VHDL are today an essential technology to support
most of the steps of digital hardware design, such as simulation, synthesis, testing, and formal proof. As the IEEE
1076 standard, VHDL is committed to evolve through ®ve years re-standardization cycles whose objective is to
make the necessary language changes or extensions in response to feedbacks from users and from tool suppliers.
Requirements to support analog and mixed-signal systems have been issued during the initial phases of the second
VHDL re-standardization cycle. Due to the complexity of the topic, a separate IEEE working group, referenced as
1076.1, was formally formed in 1993 with the charter to provide a language proposal based on VHDL 1076 that
includes these new requirements. The language design phase is now complete and a solid language architecture is
de®ned. A formal IEEE balloting process to approve the proposal as the new IEEE Standard 1076.1 has started in
August 1997 and will be completed before the end of the year. This paper presents an overview of the 1076.1
language proposal that enhances VHDL to handle systems that exhibit continuous behavior over time and over
amplitude. The way it is designed, VHDL 1076.1 will support the description and the simulation of both nonconservative
and conservative continuous and mixed discrete/continuous systems. |
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