1. Object Orientation: Modeling and Design Paradigms for the Year 2000?. - 1. 1. Motivation. - 1. 2. Software design. - 1. 3. Hardware design. - 1. 4. The Future of Hardware Design. - 1. 5. The Influence of Object Orientation on the Design Process. - 1. 6. Summary and Outlook. - 2. Object-Oriented Modeling of Hardware for Embedded Systems. - 2. 1. Introduction. - 2. 2. Data Types. - 2. 3. Modeling Hardware Components as Classes. - 2. 4. Deriving Specialized Components. - 2. 5. Data Decomposition. - 2. 6. Arithmetic Logic Unit Example. - 2. 7. Type Genericity. - 2. 8. Related Work. - 2. 9. Conclusions. - 3. Object-Oriented and Real-Time Techniques: Combined Use of OMT SDL and MSC. - 3. 1. Introduction. - 3. 2. The OORT engineering process. - 3. 3. Overview of the OMT MSC and SDL notations. - 3. 4. Introduction to a combined use of OMT MSC and SDL. - 3. 5. OORT and the co-design. - 3. 6. Conclusions. - 4. Integrated System Design with an Object-Oriented Methodology. - 4. 1. Introduction. - 4. 2. Methodology Outline. - 4. 3. Analysis using OMT. - 4. 4. Creating a System Model with OMT*. - 4. 5. Paths to Implementation: SDL and VHDL. - 4. 6. The INSYDE toolset. - 4. 7. Case Studies. - 4. 8. Conclusion. - 5. Object Orientation and Structural Design. - 5. 1. Introduction. - 5. 2. Outline. - 5. 3. VHDL Structural Descriptions. - 5. 4. Principles of Object Orientation. - 5. 5. Structure and Object Orientation. - 5. 6. An Inheritance Concept for Structural VHDL. - 5. 7. Application Examples. - 5. 8. Genericity. - 5. 9. Conclusion and Outlook. - 6. Abstract Hardware Modelling Using an Object-Oriented Language Extension to VHDL. - 6. 1. Introduction. - 6. 2. Modelling Problems. - 6. 3. Object-Oriented Techniques. - 6. 4. Acceptance of New Design Techniques. - 6. 5. Survey on the Object Modeling Technique from Rumbaugh. - 6. 6. The Implementation Language. - 6. 7. From Specification to Implementation. - 6. 8. Parallelism in Hardware Systems. - 6. 9. Specification and Implementation of Communication Mechanisms. - 6. 10. Conclusion. - 7. Object-Oriented Generation of VHDL Models. - 7. 1. Introduction. - 7. 2. Object-Oriented Paradigm. - 7. 3. Analysis of VHDL Model Generation System. - 7. 4. VHDL Model Generation System. - 7. 5. Example. - 7. 6. Conclusions. Language: English