Industrial experimentation of high-level synthesis

Author

Kission, P. ; Closse, E. ; Bergher, L. ; Jerraya, A.A.

Author_Institution

system-level synthesis Group, TIMA/INPG, Grenoble, France

fYear

1993

Firstpage

506

Lastpage

511

Abstract

The use of the high-level synthesis system AMICAL for the architectural synthesis of the filter or subband synthesis described in the MPEG-AUDIO specification is described. AMICAL starts with a behavioral specification given in VHDL and generates a structural description that may feed existing silicon compilers acting at the logic and register transfer levels. AMICAL is an interactive tool, meaning that different solutions can be rapidly obtained by carrying out varied manual interventions. Several architectural solutions have been generated by means of the AMICAL system. A comparison table for the results obtained indicates that the final solution obtained by AMICAL respects the real time constraints imposed by the application

Keywords

decoding; formal specification; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; interactive systems; logic design; optimisation; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; AMICAL; MPEG-AUDIO specification; VHDL; architectural solutions; architectural synthesis; behavioral specification; comparison table; high-level synthesis; interactive tool; logic level; real time constraints; register transfer levels; signal compression; structural description; subband synthesis; Circuit synthesis; Control system synthesis; Decoding; Design automation; Filters; High level synthesis; Logic; Phase change materials; Silicon compiler; Transform coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 1993, with EURO-VHDL '93. Proceedings EURO-DAC '93., European

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4350-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURDAC.1993.410684

Filename

410684