Soft connections: Addressing the hardware-design modularity problem

Hardware-design languages typically impose a rigid communication hierarchy that follows module instantiation. This leads to an undesirable side-effect where changes to a child's interface result in changes to the parents. Soft connections address this problem by allowing the user to specify con...

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Main Authors: Pellauer, Michael Ignatius (Contributor), Emer, Joel S. (Contributor), Adler, Michael (Author), Chiou, Derek (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2010-10-01T15:07:24Z.
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