SMASH: a program for scheduling memory-intensive application-specific hardware

Author

Gupta, Pravil ; Parker, Alice C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

18-20 May 1994

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Addresses automatic synthesis of memory-intensive application specific systems, with emphasis on hierarchical storage architecture design. SMASH is a program which combines storage hierarchy design with data path synthesis. It uses appropriate system parameters in order to coordinate between the synthesis of different subarchitectures of the system and schedules data transfers between them. We have synthesized some design examples using SMASH and have included the results in this paper

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; integrated memory circuits; logic CAD; memory architecture; scheduling; special purpose computers; SMASH; automatic synthesis; data path synthesis; data transfers; hierarchical storage architecture design; memory-intensive application-specific hardware; scheduling program; storage hierarchy design; subarchitectures; system parameters; Bandwidth; Control system synthesis; Delay; Hardware; Memory management; Process design; Registers; Space exploration; Storage automation; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Level Synthesis, 1994., Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5785-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISHLS.1994.302341

Filename

302341