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

... microprocessors. The automatic synthesis support of high- level programming languages (such as C, 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 each submodule is synthesized by AutoPilot system...

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... Catapult Synthesis tool. 3.1.4 Industrial Requirements for Modern High- Level Synthesis Tools The fact that high- level synthesis tools can provide significant value through faster time -to- RTL and optimized ... applicability of these tools. 3.1.2 A New Approach to High- Level Synthesis Acknowledging this unfulfilled need to improve productivity and learning from the shortcoming...

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... takes to do one design. Therefore, design automation is the key to effective exploration. 2. High level, multi-block IP design and implementation: This is, of course, the main purpose of a high level ... an automated way. 60 S. Aditya and V. Kathail In design flows based on high level synthesis, on the other hand, an automatic path to RTL implementation and verification is poss...

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... transaction -level func- tion call interface to the designer which allows them to be used without requiring the designer to be expert in the details of the interface protocol. • Construction of custom ... Using Cynthesizer, an engineer can combine high- level behavioral design with low -level register-transfer level design. Ordinarily, an engineer who wants to do a pure RTL des...

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... chapter presents GAUT, an academic and open-source high- level synthesis tool dedicated to digital signal processing applications. Starting from an algorithmic bit-accurate specification written in ... cores will need new ESL design tools in order to raise the specification abstraction level up to the “algorithmic one”. Algorithmic descriptions enable an IC designer to focus on...

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... example, set m to be proportional to the average branching 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 algorit...

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... the maximum 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 (wider than 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 also be modified i...

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... 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 connections between t...

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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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... 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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