HORN Project Software
Programs developed as part of the HORN project in order to assist the
design and analysis of low power VLSI designs - mainly support for
asynchronous designs.
VLSI Design Tool Support
- Busparse
- To convert the bus definitions in a .out file produced by TimeMill® into bus definitions that can
be read by AReview, a waveform drawing tool developed by ARM Ltd.
- Edges
- To check through the .out file produced byTimeMill® and warn about any long edge
times.
- Bundles
- To check bundling constraints in an asynchronous design using the
bundled data protocol and 4 phase handshake signals.
- Summarisebundles
- To process the verbose output of the bundles utility and produce
in the information in a more concise form sorted according to the
type of error and identifying entire buses rather than individual
signals. All the information obtained from the bundles program is reported.
- Supersumb
- This program filters the output of summarisebundles and produces
an even more concise report by discarding some of the
information. Only the worst violation for each bus or signal is
reported for each type of error.
- Pest
- This tools estimates the power (energy) consumption of a given
circuit during a given simulation. The precise energy results are
only rough estimates, since the tool only calculates dynamic
power consumption, but they will allow identification of high
power sections of a design.
The copyright and any intellectual property rights associated with this
work are retained by the author and the University of Manchester, but
permission is granted to freely copy, distribute, modify and use this
software under certain conditions, as described in the Artistic Licence (with the deletion of
clause 8). This licence is obtained from the Perl distribution.
TimeMill is a registered trademark of EPIC Design Technology
Inc, 2901 Tasman drive, Suite 212, Sata Clara, CA 95054.
This software was developed as part of the OMI HORN
project at the University
of Manchester Department of Computer Science, funded as part of
the European Union ESPRIT initiative (project number 7249).
Rhod Davies (rhod@cs.man.ac.uk)
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Tue Apr 9 1996 10:45:05