A method of designing an integrated circuit for an application having
standards having a plurality of primitives, each of the primitives having
a corresponding response. The method includes generating a macros
description of each of the primitives and the response corresponding to
each of the primitives, wherein the macros description includes
information relating to a number of first fields for each of the
primitives and a number of second fields for the response corresponding
to each of the primitives. The method further includes receiving a
specification of the behavior of the integrated circuit in response to
the primitives that has one or more values specified for each of the
second fields, and generating a hardware description language
representation for the integrated circuit based on the macros description
and the specification. Also, a software tool which implements the method.