VHDL to FPGA automatic IP-Core generation: a case study on Xilinx design flow

This paper aims at introducing a methodology that allows an easy implementation of IP-Cores focusing only on their functionalities rather than their interfaces and their integration in a given architecture. The proposed approach implements all the communication infrastructure needed by a component, described in VHDL, to be finally inserted into a real architecture that can be implemented on FPGAs, reducing the time to market of the final implementation of the system. To validate the entire methodology, we have performed a comparison based on the CoreConnect communication infrastructure, between our results with the classical Xilinx design flow using EDK and ISE.