Efficient integration of behavioral synthesis within existing design flows

Analyzes the reasons why behavioral synthesis was never widely accepted by designers, and then proposes a practical solution to this problem. The main breakthrough of this new approach is the redefinition of the synthesis flow at the behavioral level to better profit from the powerful of RTL (regist...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cesariao, W.O., Sugar, Z., Moussa, I., Jerraya, A.A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Character generation
Circuit synthesis
Communication system control
Control system synthesis
Job shop scheduling
Laboratories
Motion estimation
Partial response channels
Sugar industry
Video codecs
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Analyzes the reasons why behavioral synthesis was never widely accepted by designers, and then proposes a practical solution to this problem. The main breakthrough of this new approach is the redefinition of the synthesis flow at the behavioral level to better profit from the powerful of RTL (register transfer level) and FSM (finite state machine) synthesis tools. The effectiveness of this new methodology is illustrated with two large design examples: a two-million-transistor ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) shaper design and a motion estimator for a video codec (H261 standard).
ISSN:1080-1820
DOI:10.1109/ISSS.2000.874033