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- 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- 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...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P13 ppt

... microprocessors.The automatic synthesis support of high- level programming languages (such asC, C++, and FORTRAN) is paramount important to allow the software designs to develop algorithms and implement ... FIFOs or object FIFOs to form a block -level pipeline.In our experiments, the same system -level architecture is used, while eachsubmodule is synthesized by AutoPilot system from a C language speciﬁcation.Manual ... ×288frame size (CIF format).6.5.2 System -Level Design ExplorationAutoPilot can also facilitate the quick system -level exploration for embeddeddesigns. To demonstrate this advantage, we have explored...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P16 pptx

... chapter presents GAUT, an academic and open-source high- level synthesis tool dedicated to digital signal processing applications. Starting from analgorithmic bit-accurate speciﬁcation written in ... cores will need new ESL design tools in order to raise the speciﬁcationabstraction level up to the “algorithmic one”. Algorithmic descriptions enable an ICdesigner to focus on functionality and ... retrieving a value from a module.8 Bluespec: A General-Purpose Approach to High- Level Synthesis 143RTL (the synthesis tool is also heavily engineered to produce RTL that is not onlyhighly readable,...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P26 pptx

... example, set m to be proportional to the averagebranching factor of the DFG under study and N to be proportional to the total oper-ation number. However, it is found that there seems to exist a ... scheduling algorithms with regards to larger number of operations, higher level of parallelism and data dependency– Provide a wide range of synthesis problems to test the algorithms’ scalabilityFor ... 1.2,while for the ACO algorithm it is only 0.19. In other words, we can expect to achieve13 Operation Scheduling: Algorithms and Applications 243 from the critical path delay to two times of this...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P29 ppt

... themaximum bit -level reuse of storage and routing units. In order to minimize the stor-age area, some variables may be stored simultaneously in the same register (widerthan or equal to the sum ... transformed to obtain one addition fragment of width m from 272 M.C. Molina et al.operations to allocate them to the set of FUs. The set of datapath resources can alsobe modiﬁed in the allocation to ... Applications to Allocation AlgorithmsThe proposed techniques to reduce the HW waste during the allocation phase can beeasily implemented in most algorithms. This chapter presents a heuristic algorithm that...

High Level Synthesis: from Algorithm to Digital Circuit- P30 pptx

... during high- level synthesis.15.1.1 Brief Introduction to High- Level Synthesis High- level synthesis [1–4] is the process of automatically converting a behav-ioral, algorithmic, speciﬁcation to an ... the algorithm should be implemented. A high- level synthesis algorithm auto-matically selects the set of hardware resources to use, determines the connectionsbetween them, binds operations to ... optimizationwithin high- level synthesis has a long history, which we will review in this chapter.In contrast, temperature optimization during high- level synthesis began to receivewidespread...

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- 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...

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