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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2007
Marlin H. Mickle, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Swapna Dontharaju, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Raymond R. Hoare, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James T. Cain, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Alex Jones, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marlin H. Mickle, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Swapna Dontharaju, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Raymond R. Hoare, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James T. Cain, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Alex Jones, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of designing an integrated circuit for an application having standards having a plurality of primitives, each of the primitives having a corresponding response. The method includes generating a macros description of each of the primitives and the response corresponding to each of the primitives, wherein the macros description includes information relating to a number of first fields for each of the primitives and a number of second fields for the response corresponding to each of the primitives. The method further includes receiving a specification of the behavior of the integrated circuit in response to the primitives that has one or more values specified for each of the second fields, and generating a hardware description language representation for the integrated circuit based on the macros description and the specification. Also, a software tool which implements the method.