LIP6 1998/030
- Thesis
Abstraction Fonctionnelle des Composants VLSI - J.-B. Guignet
- 116 pages - 03/31/1998- document en - http://www.lip6.fr/lip6/reports/1998/lip6.1998.030.ps.gz - 182 Ko
- Contact : jean-bruce.guignet (at) nullbull.net
- Ancien Thème : ASIM
- Keywords : abstraction, VLSI electronic component, verification, technology migration, VHDL, Verilog, reverse engineering
- Publisher : Francois.Dromard (at) nulllip6.fr
Method to deduce the data flow behavior from any VLSI electronic component considered at the transistor netlist level. The transistor netlist can itself be deduced from a diffusion mask level description. The method is based upon a structural pattern recognition approach. An abstraction engine is driven by external abstraction rules whose format is analog to production rules. Rules contain models of the circuits to be recognized. This method allows a precise recognition of any kind of electronic circuit, and both Vhdl and Verilog behaviors can be deduced, whatever the CMos, NMos, Bipolaire, BiCMos technology used. This method can be used in verification or in technology migration flows, and has been proved efficient on several real industrial designs.