PICSIL : design and synthesis of digital ICs from data flow diagrams : a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Murray William
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-27T01:02:05Z
dc.date.available2012-02-27T01:02:05Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes the background, development, and testing of PICSIL, a system for designing digital integrated circuits by structured decomposition. PICSIL draws upon graphical and textual specification techniques; the first for high-level, architectural, system components, the second for more detailed, functional, specification. Many graphical design paradigms already exist. Of these, DFDs (Data Row Diagrams) best suit the assembly and intercommunication of abstract modules. With minor adaptations, DFDs were used as the high-level specification language. Lower-level functionality was described using a textual language based on HardwareC. Although HardwareC is not ideally suited to this use, and had to be extended in several areas it was adopted mainly for pragmatic reasons. To accept a system defininition and subsequently determine the details of its synthesis, the PICSIL system had not only to capture and edit high-level specifications, but also to deliver these specifications to one of several possible synthesis paths. The practical part of the thesis therefore consisted of implementing a graphical editor and a synthesis compiler. These drive the lower level Olympus and Octtools synthesis packages to provide a complete path from PICSIL input to chip layout. A layout produced by following this path has been sent for fabrication.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/3123
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectDigital integrated circuitsen_US
dc.subjectData row diagramsen_US
dc.subjectGraphical editoren_US
dc.subjectSynthesis compileren_US
dc.titlePICSIL : design and synthesis of digital ICs from data flow diagrams : a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorPearson, Murray William
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
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