A Web-CAD methodology for IP-core analysis and simulation

• Published in: Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference: Proceedings of the 37th conference on Design automation; 05-09 June 2000 pp. 597 - 600
• Main Authors: Fin, Alessandro, Fummi, Franco
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.2000; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Analytical models; Applied computing > Physical sciences and engineering > Engineering; Computer systems organization > Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks; Design optimization; General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Performance; Hardware design languages; Intellectual property; Java; Libraries; Networks > Network performance evaluation; Permission; Protection; Security and privacy; Social and professional topics > Computing > technology policy > Computer crime; Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features > Patterns; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles > Client-server architectures; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures; Switches; Time to market
• ISBN: 9781581131871; 1581131879
• DOI: 10.1145/337292.337590

An effective selection of the more suited IP-core, available for a particular design, should be based on some simulation sessions. However, simulation models cannot be close enough to the real models of the core to protect the intellectual property. This paper proposes a Web-CAD methodology for IP-core analysis based on a client/server simulation architecture. The core vendor can make available to the public even the core models used for core synthesis without disclosing IP information. On the other side, the core user can simulate the remote core in the local simulation environment in the same way a local library component is simulated. To achieve this result, some problems concerning the non equivalence of the event driven semantic and the message driven semantic have been analyzed and solved.