SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits

• Main Authors: Gupta, Sumit (Author), Gupta, Rajesh K. (Author), Dutt, Nikil D. (Author), Nicolau, Alexandru (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electrical Engineering.

Rapid advances in microelectronic integration and the advent of Systems-on-Chip have fueled the need for high-level synthesis, i.e., an automated approach to the synthesis of hardware from behavioral descriptions. SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High - Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits pres...

Table of Contents:

• to High-Level Synthesis
• Survey of Previous Work
• Models and Representations
• Parallelizing High-Level Synthesis (PHLS)
• Our Parallelizing High-Level Synthesis Methodology
• Pre-Synthesis Compiler Optimizations
• Compiler and Synthesis Transformations Employed During Scheduling
• Code Transformations and Scheduling
• Resource Binding and Control Synthesis
• SPARK: Implementation Scripts and Design Examples
• SPARK: Implementation, Usage and Synthesis Scripts
• Design Examples
• Case Study: Synthesis of an Instruction Length Decoder
• Future Directions
• Conclusions and Future Work.