Hardware Description Alteration via Instruction File
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional hardware alteration techniques result in extensively transformed hardware descriptions, making it difficult to decipher the original logic and complicating the reuse of modifications, as they simultaneously analyze and modify hardware descriptions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for altering hardware descriptions based on an instruction file, which involves analyzing the hardware description, creating an instruction file with incremental changes, and applying these changes to optimize the hardware description while preserving the original intent and structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional hardware alteration techniques are used to simultaneously analyze and modify hardware descriptions, then the hardware can be altered, but the original hardware description logic becomes difficult to decipher and modification reuse becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the hardware alteration process into two distinct phases: analysis phase (where the hardware description is analyzed and an instruction file is generated) and modification phase (where the hardware description is altered based on the instruction file). This segmentation preserves the original hardware description during analysis and enables separate reuse of the instruction file for modifications, thereby resolving the contradiction between alteration efficiency and preservation of original logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary analysis of the hardware description to generate an instruction file before actual modification occurs. This preliminary action allows the original hardware description to remain intact and readable while all analysis and modification planning is completed in advance, thus preserving original logic while maintaining high alteration efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional hardware alteration techniques extensively transform hardware descriptions, then modifications can be applied, but the complexity of the hardware description increases and original structure is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the modification instructions from the analysis phase into a separate instruction file, taking out the transformation logic from the hardware description itself. This extraction allows modifications to be applied without embedding complex transformation logic within the hardware description, thereby maintaining adaptability while reducing hardware description complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The instruction file serves as an intermediary between the analysis phase and the modification phase. It carries the necessary modification information without requiring extensive transformation of the hardware description, thus enabling versatile modifications while keeping the hardware description structure simple and readable.
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AI summary
A system, method and computer program product are provided for altering a hardware description based on an instruction file. In use, a hardware description is identified. Additionally, the hardware description is analyzed. Further, an instruction file is created based on the analysis. Moreover, the hardware is altered based on the instruction file.