Digital circuit design assist system for designing hardware units and software units in a desired circuit and method thereof

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention relates to a digital circuit design assist system, and is directed to provide a system which independently verifies hardware divided into a plurality of units or the hardware and software, and reduces the design time. This system comprises a functional model storage unit 1 for storing functional models in order to design hardware for a desired digital circuit comprising the hardware alone or the hardware and firmware and, functionally expressing the digital circuit by a hardware description language through a text editor 15 by coding input, logic synthesis means 2 for converting the functional model to a structural model structurally expressed by the hardware description …