Using Waves and VHDL for Effective Design and Testing: A Practical and Useful Tutorial and Application Guide for the Waveform and Vector Exchange Spec

ISBN-13: 9781461378648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str.

James P. Hanna; Robert G. Hillman;Herb L. Hirsch

Opis

2 Concept ( Tools - Specification ( Tools + Design Stages ( Tools - Implementation ( Tools Figure 1-1. A nominal, multi-stage development process From that beginning, we have progressed to the point where the EDA community at large, including both users and developers of the tools, are interested in more unified environments. Here, the notion is that the tools used at the various stages in the development process need to be able to complement each other, and to communicate with one another efficiently using effective file exchange capabilities. Furthermore, the idea of capturing all the tool support needed for an EDA development into a unified support environment is now becoming a reality. This reality is evidenced by some of the EDA suites we now see emerging, wherein several tool functions are integrated under a common graphical user interface (GUI), with supporting file exchange and libraries to enable all tool functions to operate effectively and synergistically. This concept, which we illustrate in Figure 1- 2, is the true future ofEDA.

Spis treści

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The History and Background of Waves. 3. WAVEFORM Concepts. 4. WAVES Concepts. 5. The WAVES Dataset. 6. Complete WAVES/VHDL Integration. 7. The External File. 8. Some Practical Issues and Examples in WAVES. 9. Capturing Waveforms and Supporting Automatic Test Equipment (ATE). 10. WAVES Level 2. 11. Interactive Waveforms: Handshaking and Matching. 12. Using WAVES for Boundary-Scan Architectures. Appendix A: WAVES Logic Value System for IEEE STD 1164-1993. Appendix B: WAVES_1164_Pin_Codes. Appendix C: WAVES_1164_Frames Package. Appendix D: WAVES_1164_Utilities Package. Application Index. Topic Index.