WEB-BASED TOOLS FOR DECOMPOSITION-ORIENTED DIGITAL DESIGN

Decomposition of digital systems is essential to many computer-aided design applications. Here we should emphasize the fact that the machine decomposition is the organic part of synthesis process. A large hardware behavioral description is decomposed into several smaller ones. One goal is to make the synthesis problem more tractable by providing smaller subproblems that can be solved efficiently. Another goal is to create descriptions that can be synthesised into a structure that meets the design constraints. In the past, synthesis focused on quality measures based on area and performance. The continuing decrease in feature size and increase in chip density in recent years have given rise to consider decomposition theory for low power as new dimension of the design process. A substantial part of this work is the development of a user-friendly interactive system developed for WWW that assists designers to deepen basic concepts and notions in digital design and helps to synthesize control devises. We are concerned with solving complex combinatorial tasks arising from the process of design. An approach to modeling of information flows in networks of finite state machines is considered. A lower power synthesis framework can integrate the proposed techniques as result of the fact that decomposition yields attractive power reduction in the final implementations. The system uses Java technology that represents a powerful tool for the development of platform-independent interactive software, which can be used on the WWW through Java enabled Web browser