PADL(ID:4418/pad002)

for PAcket Description Language

MIT

Hardware description language for describing packets
References:
  • Clement K.C. Leung, William Y.-P. Lim "PADL A Packet Architecture Description Language" MIT Lincoln TEch Report 306 1983 view details External link: Page at citseer Abstract: PADL is a hardware description language for specifying the behavior
    and structure of packet
    communication systems. In such systems, hardware units called modules
    communicate by sending and
    receiving packets. The behavior of such a system can be specified by
    providing the algorithm it executes and
    the data structures it manipulates. On the other hand, the structure
    of a system is specified by giving the
    components or of the system and their interconnection. These
    components can be further specified
    structurally or behaviorally. The language constructs of PADL fall
    inW two categories - those for behavior
    specification and those for structure specification. All these
    constructs which include the usual control
    constructs like conditionals and iterations, constructs for the
    packet oriented inter-module communication
    operations including a non-deterministic input operation, and
    facilities for data structuring, defining and
    invoking procedures, as well as for specifying, using and connecting
    modules, are described in this
    preliminary reference hnguage manual,
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