Object-Oriented Extension to Hardware Description Language SFL
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The scale of VLSI's has been getting much larger. Current Hardware Description Languages (HDL) including SFL are procedural languages like Pascal or C, and hardware components cannot be custamized when reused. We are studying an object-oriented extension to HDL to promote hardware component reuse. This paper describes the research direction and basic concepts of object-oriented HDL (OO-HDL), investigates inheritance anomaly in hardware component inheritance, and proposes a solution. This paper also presents our language prototype SFL++ which is an extension of SFL.