11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Real-time Extensions to a C-like Hardware Description Language
Napa, California
April 09-April 11
ISBN: 0-7695-1979-2
Handel-C is a language for compilation into hardware. It is based on C with support for parallel execution and user-defined data size. We present extensions to a Handel-C like language for real-time applications. Our exten-sions are based on those of Occam 2, a language related to Handel-C. We show that our extensions, though simple, can implement the basic real-time idioms of timed wait and timeout.