Abstract
As reactive systems are growing more and more complex, costs stemming from a misconception in early design phases like requirements analysis and system specification show a tendency to explode. This makes rapid prototyping inevitable for extensive simulation in early design phases. In this article, we investigate into the usability of field programmable logic for designing a “real-world” testbench suitable for simulating the environment of a prototype. We present a top-down design method which significantly reduces effort, especially when FPGAs are also used as implementation technology for the system prototype.
References
IEEE, IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual, IEEE, 1988.
David Hard: “Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Computer Systems,” in: Science of Computer Programming, Vol. 8, North Holland, 1987.
Valentina Salapura, Volker Hamann: “Using Statecharts and Embedded VHDL for Fuzzy Controller Design”, Proc. of VHDL-Forum for CAD in Europe, 1994.
Speed: “SPeeDCHART Reference Manual”, Speed SA Neuchatel (Switzerland), 1993.
Synopsys, “Design Compiler Reference Manual,” Version 3.0., Synopsys Inc., 1992.
VIEWlogic: “Workview Reference Manual,” Version 4.1, VIEWlogic Systems Inc., 1991.
Xilinx: “The Programmable Logic Data Book,” Xilinx Inc., 1993.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1994 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hamann, V. (1994). A testbench design method suitable for FPGA-based prototyping of reactive systems. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Servít, M.Z. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications. FPL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_74
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_74
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-58419-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48783-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive