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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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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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... 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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... 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-...