Proposed Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Enhancements to the Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL)

Abstract

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Principles for Language Extensions to VHDL to Support High‐Level Modeling

“…Programming by Extension The programming by extension approach involves adopting features of Ada-95 [32], and is the basis of proposals by Mills [36], and Schumacher and Nebel [42]. Dunlop [17] also illustrates the general concepts of objectoriented data modeling using this approach.…”