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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 633-644


Entity Overloading for Mixed-Signal Abstraction in VHDL


C.-J. Richard Shi
Department of Electrical and Engineering
University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 98195-2500, U.S.A.


    In this paper we propose to extend VHDL with entity overloading. With minimal change in the existing VHDL, entity overloading provides strong support for mixed-signal, mixed-level, and mixed-domain abstractions. It is particularly promising for resolving some issues related to analog extension of VHDL. Furthermore, we show that entity overloading can be combined with certain modeling rules to obtain a polymorphic netlist.


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