This volume describes an approach to computer hardware design based on behavioural hardware description languages, which enable a designer to be confident of a design's suitability at every stage of the process. The text uses examples ranging in complexity from logic gates to the small computer, and examines the issues related to the writing of accurate specifications and the verification of designs. It discusses the necessary features of hardware description languages and the issues involved in their development. Formal specification techniques, both from industry and academia, are examined in detail with particular emphasis on higher-order logic and the Circal framework. The problems of verifying timing properties and of dealing with uncertainty in specifications are also explored.
- ISBN10 0748601597
- ISBN13 9780748601592
- Publish Date 31 January 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English