High-Level System Modeling

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Specification-Modeling Methodologies for Reactive-System Design

   • Ambar Sarkar, Ronald Waxman, James P. Cohoon

   Pages 1-34

3. Survey on Languages for Object Oriented Hardware Design Methodologies

   • Guido Schumacher, Wolfgang Nebel

   Pages 35-50

4. VSPEC: A Declarative Requirements Specification Language for VHDL

   • Phillip Baraona, John Penix, Perry Alexander

   Pages 51-75

5. Communication Protocols Implemented in Hardware: VHDL Generation From Estelle

   • Jacek Wytrebowicz, Stanislaw Budkowski

   Pages 77-98

6. An Algorithm for the Translation of SDL into Synthesizable VHDL

   • R. J. O. Figueiredo, I. S. Bonatti

   Pages 99-109

7. From Lotos to VHDL

   • C. Delgado Kloos, A. Marín López, T. de Miguel Moro, T. Robles Valladares

   Pages 111-140

8. Using an X-Machine to Model a Video Cassette Recorder

   • Matt Fairtlough, Mike Holcombe, Florentin Ipate, Camilla Jordan, Gilbert Laycock, Duan Zhenhua

   Pages 141-160

9. Back Matter

   Pages 161-162

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A reactive system is one that is in continual interaction with its environment and executes at a pace determined by that environment. Examples of reactive systems are network protocols, air-traffic control systems, industrial-process control systems etc. Reactive systems are ubiquitous and represent an important class of systems. Due to their complex nature, such systems are extremely difficult to specify and implement. Many reactive systems are employed in highly-critical applications, making it crucial that one considers issues such as reliability and safety while designing such systems. The design of reactive systems is considered to be problematic, and p.oses one of the greatest challenges in the field of system design and development. In this paper, we discuss specification-modeling methodologies for reactive systems. Specification modeling is an important stage in reactive system design where the designer specifies the desired properties of the reactive system in the form of a specification model. This specification model acts as the guidance and source for the implementation. To develop the specification model of complex systems in an organized manner, designers resort to specification modeling methodologies. In the context of reactive systems, we can call such methodologies reactive-system specification modeling methodologies.

• Hardware
• Hardwarebeschreibungssprache
• Simulation
• System
• VHDL
• algorithms
• automation
• circuit design
• communication
• model
• modeling
• system modeling

• CNET, France

  Jean-Michel Bergé

• Synopsys Inc., USA

  Oz Levia

• ESIM, France

  Jacques Rouillard

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