SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTERFACE PROTECTION PARAMETERS

A system and method for adding interface protection to an electronic design using parameters. The electronic design and interface protection scheme are defined as parameters. An interface protection model creates interface protection implementation parameters that describe the implementation details of the interface protection. A hardware description model uses the electronic design parameters and the interface protection implementation parameters to create a hardware description. The interface protection scheme can be a built-in protection scheme, a user defined scheme, a scheme that includes place holders that the user may define later, and a combination of the preceding. The interface protection scheme may contain components to help with the retiming of the description of hardware.