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 are converted 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...

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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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... modems. Automatic synthesis of such application engines from a high level algorithmic description can significantly reduce both design time and design cost. This chap- ter reviews high level requirements ... Synthesis and Verification from High Level C Algorithms Shail Aditya and Vinod Kathail Abstract The increasing SoC complexity and a relentless pressure to reduce time- to...

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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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... 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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... 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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... the design to the rest of the world. Structure or pointer arguments infer output ports if the design reads from them but does not write to them. • Input ports transfer data both to and from the ... the “convert to gray” function. It is 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 t...

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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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