Hardware synthesis for asynchronous communications mechanisms

Abstract

Asynchronous data communication mechanisms (ACMs) have been extensively studied as data connectors between independently timed concurrent processes. In this work an automatic method for synthesis of re-reading ACMs is introduced. This method is is oriented to the generation of hardware artifacts. The behavior of re-reading ACMs is formally defined and the correctness properties are discussed. Then it is shown how to generate the ACMs specifications and how they can be translated into a proper hardware implementation. Verilog has been used as the target language to describe the hardware being synthesized.