High — Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design

✍ Scribed by Daniel D. Gajski, Nikil D. Dutt, Allen C-H Wu, Steve Y-L Lin (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research on high-level synthesis started over twenty years ago, but lower-level tools were not available to seriously support the insertion of high-level synthesis into the mainstream design methodology. Since then, substantial progress has been made in formulating and understanding the basic concepts in high-level synthesis. Although many open problems remain, high-level synthesis has matured.
High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design presents a summary of the basic concepts and results and defines the remaining open problems. This is the first textbook on high-level synthesis and includes the basic concepts, the main algorithms used in high-level synthesis and a discussion of the requirements and essential issues for high-level synthesis systems and environments. A reference text like this will allow the high-level synthesis community to grow and prosper in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Architectural Models in Synthesis....Pages 27-61
Quality Measures....Pages 63-92
Design Description Languages....Pages 93-135
Design Representation and Transformations....Pages 137-177
Partitioning....Pages 179-212
Scheduling....Pages 213-258
Allocation....Pages 259-296
Design Methodology for High-Level Synthesis....Pages 297-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-359

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems; Electrical Engineering; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design