Synthesis of area-efficient and high-throughput rate data format converters

This paper proposes two design methodologies for synthesis of area-efficient data format converters (DFCs) with high throughput rate. DFCs are grouped into various classes according to the specification of design parameters. The first design methodology is suitable for design of many representative classes of DFCs. The designs using this methodology are based on a two-dimensional (2-D) architecture. They have maximum throughput rate and are area-efficient. Various design examples are shown to demonstrate improved performance, flexibility and usefulness of this design methodology. For several representative problems, the area requirements of our designs are compared against those obtained by earlier design methodologies. For all the problems considered, this methodology leads to compact designs. The second design methodology employs an architecture using dual buffers. The simple and regular architecture using dual buffers leads to area-efficient DFCs. The design procedure using this methodology is simple and can reduce the design effort in many applications.