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System level design language extensions for timed/untimed digital-analog combined system design

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Recently, System Level Design Languages (SLDL) which can describe both hardware and software aspects of the design are getting attentions. Mixed-signal extensions of SLDL enable current discrete-oriented SLDL to describe and simulate not only digital systems but also Digital-Analog mixed-signal systems. The synchronization between discrete and continuous system is wildly regarded as a critical part in the extensions. In this paper, we present an event-driven synchronization approach for both timed and untimed system-level designs through which discrete and continuous time systems are synchronized via Analog-Digital(AD) events and Digital-Analog(DA) events. We also demonstrate how the synchronization method can be incorporated into SLDL, such as SpecC[4]'s simulation kernel. In the extended kernel, a new simulation cycle, AD time cycle is introduced. A preliminary evaluation on a spike-based current mode ADC[8] with CNT-based continuous description shows that the extended kernel works well under the timed/untimed system-level description.

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    GLSVLSI '05: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
    April 2005
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    ISBN:1595930574
    DOI:10.1145/1057661
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    1. AMS extension
    2. mixed-signal
    3. synchronization
    4. system level design
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