Compiling Communicating Processes into Delay-Insensitive VLSI Circuits

Abstract

If VLSI is an adequate technology to implement highly concurrent computations, it should be possible to apply to VLSI the already well-established design methods for distributed programming. Ideally, a distributed computation should be described in a notation that can be compiled into a VLSI-circuit as well into code for a stored-program computer. The method described in this paper is a step in that direction. At the moment, the term "compiling" means a "systemic, semantics-preserving transformation". The ultimate goal of the transformation being carried out automatically has not yet been achieved, although we believe that it is not remote.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA451442

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  • Alain J. Martin

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  • California Institute of Technology

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