Trident: From High-Level Language to Hardware Circuitry

Author

Tripp, Justin L. ; Gokhale, Maya B. ; Peterson, Kristopher D.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM

Volume

40

Issue

3

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

37

Abstract

Unlocking the potential of field-programmable gate arrays requires compilers that translate algorithmic high-level language code into hardware circuits. The Trident open source compiler translates C code to a hardware circuit description, providing designers with extreme flexibility in prototyping reconfigurable supercomputers

Keywords

C language; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; program compilers; public domain software; reconfigurable architectures; C code translation; Trident open source program compiler; algorithmic high-level language code translation; field-programmable gate array; hardware circuit description; reconfigurable supercomputer prototyping; Application software; Circuit synthesis; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; High level languages; Packaging; Partitioning algorithms; Program processors; Programming profession; Signal processing algorithms; FPGAs; Handel-C; Impulse C; Mitrion-C; RC Toolbox; SRC Carte; Supercomputing; Trident compiler; reconfigurable computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2007.107

Filename

4133993