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Raising complexity of hardware devices being developed and increasing time-to-market constraints has scaled up the risk of designing bug-affected devices augmenting the interest into formal design techniques. This approach considerably improves early error detection, giving good guaranties on the effectiveness of the devices produced. To deploy the design some techniques must be provided to synthesise the device preserving its features. The proposed technique defines an hardware translation of LOTOS specifications into a Register Transfer Level language. To preserve LOTOS synchronisation semantics an handshake protocol is defined.
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Carchiolo, V., Malgeri, M., Mangioni, G. (2003). From Specification to Hardware Device: A Synthesis Algorithm. In: Dong, J.S., Woodcock, J. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39893-6_37
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