A workbench for generation of component models

Abstract

The authors present a generator of behavioral components models which is highly flexible as it depends neither on a particular modeling technique, nor on a specific input format of a component specification. It is currently tuned for VHDL, but in fact is not HDL specific. To obtain a maximum degree of flexibility, the generator was designed as a model development environment basically composed of four module types: preprocessor modules parsing and processing component specifications of a specific definition format, method modules representating the component modeling technique to be used, a server module that controls and invokes various generation activities, and a client module constituting the user interface. To provide a workbench that can be tailored to the model developer's individual needs and can grow with the model developer's experience is the major concern of this work.<>