The Electrical Engineering Handbook

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The Role of Hardware Description Languages in the Design Process of Multinature Systems

Sorin A. Huss,     Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Design Process and Levels of Abstraction

3.3. Fundamentals of VHDL–AMS

3.4. Systems Modeling: A Multinature Example

3.4.1. Partitioning the System

3.4.2. Models of Functional Units

3.4.3. Simulation Results

3.5. Conclusion and Further Readings

References

3.1 Introduction

In the past, information processing systems migrated from computing centers via desktops and laptops into embedded systems, which are a well-hidden part of not only transportation or production systems but ...