Efficient integration of behavioral synthesis within existing design flows

Author

Cesariao, W.O. ; Sugar, Z. ; Moussa, I. ; Jerraya, A.A.

Author_Institution

TIMA Lab., Grenoble, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Analyzes the reasons why behavioral synthesis was never widely accepted by designers, and then proposes a practical solution to this problem. The main breakthrough of this new approach is the redefinition of the synthesis flow at the behavioral level to better profit from the powerful of RTL (register transfer level) and FSM (finite state machine) synthesis tools. The effectiveness of this new methodology is illustrated with two large design examples: a two-million-transistor ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) shaper design and a motion estimator for a video codec (H261 standard)

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; finite state machines; high level synthesis; image processing equipment; motion estimation; telecommunication computing; video codecs; ATM shaper design; H261 standard; asynchronous transfer mode; behavioral synthesis; design flows; finite state machine synthesis tools; motion estimator; register transfer level synthesis tools; synthesis flow; video codec; Character generation; Circuit synthesis; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Motion estimation; Partial response channels; Sugar industry; Video codecs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Synthesis, 2000. Proceedings. The 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Madrid

ISSN

1080-1820

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0765-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSS.2000.874033

Filename

874033