Soft connections: Addressing the hardware-design modularity problem
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 conn...
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| Language: | en_US |
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Association for Computing Machinery
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58817 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3459-5466 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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