Using WAVES and VHDL for Effective Design and Testing

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Testing.- 1.2 The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL).- 1.3 WAVES with VHDL.- 1.4 Overview of the Text.- 2 The History and Background of WAVES.- 2.1 WAVES History.- 2.2 WAVES-VHDL Integration for Modeling and Simulation.- 2.3 WAVES Common Packages (the WAVES 1164 Library).- 3 WAVEFORM Concepts.- 3.1 Waveforms.- 3.2 Characteristics and Structure of the Waveform.- 3.3 Composing the Time-based Waveform.- 4 WAVES Concepts.- 4.1 The Logic Value System.- 4.2 Pin Codes.- 4.3 Frames and Frame Sets.- 5 The WAVES Dataset.- 5.1 Overview of the Design and Testing Environment.- 5.2 The WAVES Dataset Structure.- 5.3 WAVES Files.- 5.4 The External Files.- 5.5 The Header File.- 5.6 The WAVES Dataset Development Procedure.- 6 Complete WAVES/VHDL Integration.- 6.1 The Integrated WAVES-VHDL Simulation System.- 6.2 The WAVES_1164_Utilities Package.- 6.3 Implementation of the WAVES-VHDL Simulation System.- 6.4 Example: The 54/74180 8-Bit Parity Generator/Checker.- 7 The External File.- 7.1 Required File Declarations.- 7.2 The External File Format.- 8 Some Practical Issues and Examples in WAVES.- 8.1 Relative Edge Placement in WAVES.- 8.2 Bi-Directional Pin Issues in WAVES.- 9 Capturing Waveforms and Supporting Automatic Test Equipment (ATE).- 9.1 Description of the Case Study.- 9.2 A WAVES Dataset for the AM2901.- 9.3 A Testbench for the AM2901.- 10 WAVES Level 2.- 10.1 External Files in Level 2.- 10.2 Waveform Generation Procedures in Level 2.- 10.3 WAVES Level 2 Constructs.- 10.4 WAVES Level 2 Usage.- 10.5 Summary.- 11 Interactive Waveforms: Handshaking and Matching.- 11.1 Handshake Delays.- 11.2 Matching.- 12 Using WAVES for Boundary-Scan Architectures.- 12.1 Boundary-Scan Architecture.- 12.2 External File Conventions.- 12.3 Waveform Generation Procedure.- 12.4 Boundary-Scan Example.- 12.5 References.- Appendix A WAVES Logic Value System for IEEE STD 1164–1993.- Appendix B WAVES_1164_Pin_Codes.- Appendix C WAVES_1164_Frames Package.- Appendix D WAVES_1164_Utilities Package.- Application Index.- Topic Index.