High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P14 pdf

... at the behavioral C level, simi-lar to our cycle accurate simulator. Such behavioral level properties/assertions areconverted into RTL ones automatically, and are passed to our RTL model checker.CWB ... ASIPs employ custom instruction-sets to accelerate some applications.There are several commercial ASIPs, such as Xtensa [7] from Tensilica and Mep [8] from Toshiba. Their base-processor and co-processors ... code efficiency of C-based design flowis shown to be 7.6 compared to the RTL design flow and a simulation speed-up ofapproximate 200, which leads to high reliability. We believe such advantages...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P2 pdf

... C -level design methodology depending on the way theyreuse in design their IPs (Fig. 1.4). More promising: designers that moved to C -level design usually don’t want to come back to RTL level to ... RTL level, on automatically produced RTL, thanks to some specialized tools. Experienceshows that power savings can be greatly improved at architectural level, compared to back-end design level. There ... Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA, jha@princeton.eduWei JiangAutoESL Design Technolgoies, Inc., 12100 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90025, USA, wjiang@autoesl.comRyan...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P7 pdf

... modems.Automatic synthesis of such application engines from a high level algorithmicdescription can signiﬁcantly reduce both design time and design cost. This chap-ter reviews high level requirements ... Synthesis and Veriﬁcation from High Level C AlgorithmsShail Aditya and Vinod KathailAbstract The increasing SoC complexity and a relentless pressure to reduce time- to- market have left the hardware ... almostalways compiled and built bottom-up. Their models are generated from thetransistor level behavior.Each of these different types of IP needs to be integrated into an SoC. The avail-ability...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P1 docx

... Recherchephilippe.coussy@univ-ubs.frFranceLaboratoire Lab-STICCde Bretagne - UBSCover illustration: Cover design by Martine Piazza, Adam Morawiec and Philippe CoussyEditors High- Level Synthesis From Algorithm to Digital CircuitPhilippe ... models and tools for design. Today, there are several offersin high- level synthesis tools that provide effective solutions in silicon. Moreover,some of the technical roadblocks to high- level synthesis ... systems as compared to integrated circuits.The potentials of high- level synthesis relate to leaving implementation details to the design algorithms and tools, including the ability to determine the...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P3 doc

... language) into hardware, thus setting upthe notion of design synthesis from a high- level language speciﬁcation. High- level Synthesis in later years will thus come to be known as the process of automatic ... has sought to disrupt con-ventional design methodologies with the advent of high- level design modeling andtools to automate the design process. This pursuit to raise the abstraction level atwhich ... work,leading to ﬁnd much optimized solutions. This could also be part of higher level optimizations tools: DSE tools (Fig. 1.11).Capacity of HLS tools is another parameter to be enhanced, even if tools...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P4 doc

... was regarding methods used to go from a high- level programming language(HLL) to an HDL. Broadly speaking, there are three ways to do it: (1) as a syntacticadd-on to capture “hardware” concepts ... us to point to the following contributing factors:a. The so-called high- level speciﬁcations in reality grew out of the need for simu-lation and were often little more than an input language to ... description that2 High- Level Synthesis: A Retrospective 21algorithmic description in a programming language is to extract the parallelisminherent in the speciﬁcation. The most common way was to extract...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P5 pptx

... Catapult Synthesis tool.3.1.4 Industrial Requirements for Modern High- Level SynthesisToolsThe fact that high- level synthesis tools can provide signiﬁcant value through fastertime -to- RTL and optimized ... applicability of these tools.3.1.2 A New Approach to High- Level SynthesisAcknowledging this unfulﬁlled need to improve productivity and learning from theshortcomings of initial attempts, Mentor Graphics ... practitioners to do things they can not do now. Today, wehave broad categories of pain-points in this area: architects have to deal with toomany design “knobs” that need to be turned to produce...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P6 potx

... the design to the rest of the world. Structure orpointer arguments infer output ports if the design reads from them but does notwrite to them.• Input ports transfer data both to and from the ... the “convert to gray” function. Itis implemented as a loop which reads RGB pixels one by one from an input array,calls the to gray” method to compute the result and assigns it to the output ... 3.10). Thisis fundamental to build optimized RTL implementations, allowing efﬁcient retar-geting of algorithmic speciﬁcations from one ASIC process to another, or even to FPGAs, with always optimal...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P8 ppt

... takes to do one design. Therefore, designautomation is the key to effective exploration.2. High level, multi-block IP design and implementation: This is, of course, themain purpose of a high level ... anautomated way.60 S. Aditya and V. KathailIn design flows based on high level synthesis, on the other hand, an automaticpath to RTL implementation and verification is possible starting from a high ... synthesis, place and route tools and integratedinto the SoC through automatically configured scripts.4 Algorithmic Synthesis Using PICO 57(a) Behavioral synthesis: This is a bottom-up approach in which...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P10 pptx

... transaction -level func-tion call interface to the designer which allows them to be used without requiringthe designer to be expert in the details of the interface protocol.• Construction of custom ... Using Cynthesizer, an engineer can combine high- level behavioral design withlow -level register-transfer level design.Ordinarily, an engineer who wants to do a pure RTL design will choose a con-ventional ... uniqueadvantage for high- level hardware design when they are used in this way to encap-sulate interfaces for ease-of-use and for reuse.The key technique is to use the C++ class mechanism to encapsulate...

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