An educational Electronic Design Automation tool for high level synthesis and optimization

Author

Karaagac, Faruk ; Koc, Hasan ; Ozturk, Sukru

Author_Institution

Sch. of Sci. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

170

Abstract

In this paper, we present an educational Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool to help undergraduate and graduate students better understand and implement fundamental concepts in digital electronic design and synthesis courses. The tool receives an intermediate format that represents the system behavior and a set of constraints as input; and generates the actual circuit in a net-list representation using the electronic components (functional units, memory and steering logic components) available in its library. A user is able to interact with the tool during the synthesis process and modify the intermediate representations before further execution. The effectiveness of the tool has been tested in a graduate level course.

Keywords

circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; educational courses; electronic engineering education; further education; high level synthesis; EDA tool; digital electronic design courses; digital electronic synthesis courses; educational electronic design automation tool; electronic components; functional units; graduate level course; high level optimization; high level synthesis; net-list representation; steering logic components; undergraduate students; Design automation; Digital systems; Libraries; Processor scheduling; Registers; Resource management; Scheduling; Computer Aided Design; Electronic Design Automation; High Level Synthesis; Optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE), 2013 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lodz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5093-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICeLeTE.2013.6644367

Filename

6644367