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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
May. 04, 2007
Jeffrey L. Kodosky, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin Hogan, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey L. Kodosky, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin Hogan, Austin, TX (US);
National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for automatically generating a data flow diagram in response to a first diagram. The first diagram may specify one or more states and one or more state transitions, wherein each state transition specifies a transition from a first state to a second state. A data flow diagram may be automatically generated from the first diagram. A hardware description may be generated from the data flow diagram. The hardware description may be usable to configure a programmable hardware element such as, for example, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The configured programmable hardware element may implement a hardware implementation of the data flow diagram.