Soft connections: Addressing the hardware-design modularity problem

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Pellauer, Michael Ignatius; Emer, Joel S.; Adler, Michael; Chiou, Derek
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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.
Date issued
2009-07
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58817
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC '09
Publisher
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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ISBN
978-1-60558-497-3
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