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... Allocation, Binding, Bit -level design 14.1 Introduction Conventional High- Level Synthesis (HLS) algorithms and commercial tools derive Register-Transfer -Level (RTL) implementations from behavioural specifications subject ... partially applied to specification operations. These design strategies may be either exploited within the high- level synthesis, or applied to optimize beh...

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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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... any need to recode the algorithm. 5.10 Verification The key verification advantage of SystemC high- level synthesis using Cynthesizer is that the designer is able to: • Design at a high level • Verify ... process. All the tools needed for library compilation to be performed by the user are included with Cynthesizer. No additional tool needs to be purchased. Cynthesizer also cre...

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... for high- level synthesis (HLS) attempt to address this complexity by automating the creation of concurrent hardware from high- level design descriptions. P. Coussy and A. Morawiec (eds.) High- Level ... General-Purpose Approach to High- Level Synthesis Based on Parallel Atomic Transactions Rishiyur S. Nikhil Abstract Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV) provides an approach to h...

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... dispatching from operators to storage elements, and from storage elements to operators. Timing adaptation (data-rates, different input/output data scheduling) is realized by the storage elements. ... Handshaking protocols are used either to communicate seamlessly between hardware nodes or between hardware and software nodes. Handshaking protocols are automatically refined by the GAUT...

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... 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 ... models and tools for design. Today, there are several offers in high- level synthesis tools that provide effective solutions in silicon. Moreover, some of the technical roadbloc...

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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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... 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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