Domino notation
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The Domino notation is a Structured hardware design feature of the hardware description language ABL, the graphic companion language of the textual hardware description language KARL, authored by Reiner Hartenstein. By expressing layout topology via structured wiring functions, slice expressions and layer expressions the Domino notation supports the simultaneous design of digital hardware structures and their structured layout floorplan. In using ABL the Domino notation allows interactive interconnect synthesis between module blocks via wiring by abutment by block placement.
[edit] Literature
- G. Girardi, R. Hartenstein, U. Welters: ABLED: a RT level Schematic Editor and Simulator user Interface; Int`l EUROMICRO Symp.; Brussels, Belgium, 1985.
- G. Girardi, R. Hartenstein, U. Welters: KARL (textual) and ABL (graphic) : A User/Designer interface in microelectronics; in (Editor: J. Encarnaçao): CAD-Schnittstellen und Datentransfer-Formate im Elektronik-Bereich; Springer-Verlag, 1986.
- A. Bonomo, G. Girardi, A. Lecce, L. Maggiulli: GENMON: a specialized ABL editor for design methodology descriptions; 2nd ABAKUS workshop, Igls, Austria, 1988.
- R. Hartenstein: Fundamentals of Structured Hardware Design - A Design Language Approach at Register Transfer Level; North Holland/American Elsevier Amsterdam/New York 1977
- R. Hartenstein: The History of KARL and ABL; in: J. Mermet (editor): Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages; Kluwer Academic Publishers, September 1993
