Integrated circuit design system and method
AssigneeVhdl, Inc
InventorFLETCHER P. MCBETH
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Abstract
An electronic system design platform and method are presented. The electronic system design platform includes a computing system that hosts a virtual channel manager. The virtual channel manager provides a graphical editor for receiving user input specifying design specifications of the integrated circuit, and the design specifications specify a number of functional blocks and current physical communication conditions between pairs of the functional blocks. The virtual channel manager is further adapted for designing a virtual channel interface for the current physical communication conditions between the pairs of the functional blocks, and selecting a communication protocol that is best suited for each virtual channel interface.
Claims6
An electronic system design platform comprising:
- a computing system that hosts a virtual channel manager, the virtual channel manager providing a graphical editor for receiving user input specifying design specifications of the integrated circuit, the design specifications specifying a number of functional blocks and current physical communication conditions between pairs of the functional blocks, a virtual channel manager further adapted for designing a virtual channel interface for the current physical communication conditions between the pairs of the functional blocks, and selecting a communication protocol that is best suited for each virtual channel interface.
A computer-implemented method for designing an integrated circuit, the method comprising:
- generating a design structure and intercommunication specifications of the integrated circuit to create a virtual channel protocol;
- transforming the virtual channel protocol into a web-centric protocol connecting hardware description language-based processing services;
- testing, using a graphical editor within a web-based service oriented architecture, each processing service to determine an operational capability of each processing service;
- if the operational capability of each processing service is acceptable, transforming the virtual channel protocol into a hardware description language-based protocol;
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- if the hardware description language-based protocol adequately constrains a design of the integrated circuit, generating a hardware description language-based interconnect system structure for the integrated circuit.
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