A methodology for analyzing hardware description language specifications of legacy designs

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dc.contributor.authorCosti, Claudio
dc.contributor.supervisorMiller, D. Michael
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-07T17:50:27Z
dc.date.available2018-06-07T17:50:27Z
dc.date.copyright2001en_US
dc.date.issued2018-06-07
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn order to increase productivity, methodologies based on reuse of previously designed components are exploited by the Integrated Circuit (IC) design community. However, designers are often faced with the problem of reusing a legacy design for which the behavior is unclear due to missing documentation and the complexity of the design. In this dissertation a methodology to assist designers in retrieving the original intent of a design from its Hardware Description Language (HDL) specification is described. The methodology is based on code analysis and techniques which produce different views of HDL code. These views represent the behavior of a design in more abstract terms than the HDL code.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/9428
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectComputer hardware description languagesen_US
dc.subjectSpecifications, Methodologyen_US
dc.titleA methodology for analyzing hardware description language specifications of legacy designsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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