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9. Conclusion
Input methods for design tools have remained largely unchanged for many years. Hardware description languages first appeared in 1984 with MATLAB and MAST, but were not generalized to electronics until the appearance of VHDL (87), VHDL-AMS (99), VERILOG-AMS or MODELICA. They offer designers a much richer means of expression. Despite these powerful tools, even with the help of modern project managers, the description in schematic form of the various design levels, integrating blocks described with these languages, remains limited in accessible semantics and flexibility of management and manipulation.
We have defined the notion of meta-schema and shown that this more abstract approach allows complex notions to be handled within a multi-designer, multi-discipline project team, or even within the extended enterprise.
This notion is easily implemented...
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Bibliography
Software tools
The main tools supporting the VHDL-AMS language at press time are :
Portunus from Adapted Solutions http://www.adapted-solutions.com
SMASH from Dolphin Integration http://www.dolphin-integration.com
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Standards and norms
- Language Rerefence Manual, IEEE 1076.1-2007, IEEE Standard VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal Extension 2007 - LRM07 - 2007
- Publication IEEE - eISBN : 0-7381-5628-0 ISBN : 0-7381-5627-2 -
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