Soft connections: Addressing the hardware-design modularity problem
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Pellauer, Michael Ignatius
Emer, Joel S.
Adler, Michael
Chiou, Derek
Date Issued
July 2009
Journal
ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC '09
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Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
Pellauer, Michael et al. “Soft connections: addressing the hardware-design modularity problem.” Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference. San Francisco, California: ACM, 2009. 276-281. © 2009 Association for Computing Machinery.
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Abstract
Hardware-design languages typically impose a rigid communication
hierarchy that follows module instantiation. This leads to an
undesirable side-effect where changes to a child’s interface result in
changes to the parents. Soft connections address this problem by
allowing the user to specify connection endpoints that are automatically
connected at compilation time, rather than by the user.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1145/1629911.1629986
