An animatable operational semantics of the Verilog hardware description language

ICFEM 2000 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 199-207

  Bowen, J P ^a   He, Jifeng ^b   Xu, Qiwen ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Macao)

Author keywords

Animation; Documentation; Hardware design languages; Helium; Interleaved codes; Logic programming; Standards development; Standards Working Groups; Uniform resource locators; Very high speed integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; HARDWARE; HELIUM; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SEMANTICS; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WEBSITES;

HARDWARE DESIGN LANGUAGE; INTERLEAVED CODES; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; VERY HIGH SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; WORKING GROUPS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 84952019323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFEM.2000.873820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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