This diagram emphasizes the role of VHDL in the RASSP program.
VHDL can be used for system definition, functional design,
hardware-software partitioning, hardware design and hardware-software
integration and test. The concept of virtual prototyping uses VHDL as
the binding language of choice for all design paradigms.
The most common usage of VHDL prior to RASSP was in the area of
hardware design. The RASSP program has extended VHDL's use to include
executable requirements, performance modeling/system level design as
well as system integration and test.
