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 syntactic add-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...

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... Recherche philippe.coussy@univ-ubs.fr France Laboratoire Lab-STICC de Bretagne - UBS Cover illustration: Cover design by Martine Piazza, Adam Morawiec and Philippe Coussy Editors High- Level Synthesis From Algorithm to Digital Circuit Philippe ... models and tools for design. Today, there are several offers in high- level synthesis tools that provide effective solutions in silic...

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... language) into hardware, thus setting up the 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 and tools to automate the design process. This pursuit to rai...

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... model). This fully automated step, based on commercial logic synthesis tools like ISE from Xilinx and Quartus from Altera, produces a library of time characterized operators to be used during the ... step the operators have to be sized according to the operations which have been assigned on. In order to get correct computing results, the width of the operator inputs/outputs have...

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... a constraint given to the data-path synthesis tools. More often, data-path synthesis tools enter into procrastination algorithms to obey the frequency constraint and lead to unacceptable circuits. ... filters. 11.1 Introduction The aim of this chapter is to provide some insight into the process of synthesis- ing digital signal processing circuits from high- level specifications....

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... and scaling parameters from the inputs of each atomic operation to its outputs. Table 11.2 summarizes the word-length and scaling propagation rules for the different atomic operations. The superscript ... we have managed to transform a non-linear time-invariant system into a linear time-varying system. This linearity allows us to predict the error at the output of the system due to...

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... approximation Chapter 12 High- Level Synthesis of Loops Using the Polyhedral Model The MMAlpha Software Steven Derrien, Sanjay Rajopadhye, Patrice Quinton, and Tanguy Risset Abstract High- level synthesis ... according to their impact on the accuracy of the original filter’s approximation. 11 Synthesis of DSP Algorithms from Infinite Precision Specifications 213 cases, the described a...

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... Derrien et al. There is an important trend in commercial high- level synthesis tools to perform hardware synthesis from C programs: CatapultC (Mentor Graphics), Pico (Syn- fora) [30], Cynthesizer (Forte ... presented in Sect. 12.4. 12.3 The MMAlpha Front-End: From Initial Specifications to a Virtual Architecture The front-end of MMAlpha contains several tools to perform code analy...

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... the first to address the problem by moving high power density functional units away from high- temperature areas to reduce the spatial power density and introducing redundant operators to reduce ... fundamental changes to existing high- level synthesis flows. References 1. R. Camposano and W. Wolf, High Level VLSI Synthesis. Kluwer, MA, 1991 2. D. C. Ku and G. D. Micheli, H...

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... C -level design methodology depending on the way they reuse 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. Experience shows that power savings can be greatly improved at architectural level, compared to back-...

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