Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

This report provides instructions for installing and using the Behavioral Design Assistant (BdA). BdA is a behavioral synthesis system that synthesizes structures from an abstract description written with VHDL behavioral constructs. The system uses components from a generic component library (GENUS), which can be mapped into a user defined technology library. The output of BdA is in structural VHDL and could be verified using a commercial VHDL simulator. The designer can control the synthesis process by providing different resource constraints to the system. BdA is also capable of producing different architectures which can be selected by the designer.