ADL and High Performance Processor Design

Architecture Description Language (ADL) can model many computer related problems and is widely used in software and hardware design. When used in processor design, lots of institutes and companies use ADL as processor quick prototype design language and use it to generate processor simulator, test-benches and compiler utilities. This paper analyzes and compares three processor description languages. We also give the disadvantages of modern ADL when used in high performance processor design and give some suggestions for further ADL development.