SPHINX: a high level synthesis system for DSP design

Author

Bayoumi, Magdy A. ; Ramakrishna, N.A. ; Madraswala, Taher ; Sahu, Sambit

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Comput. Studies, Southwestern Louisiana Univ., Lafayette, LA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1992

fDate

10-13 May 1992

Firstpage

172

Abstract

A brief overview is given of the Sphinx System, a high-level synthesis system consisting of an integrated and interacting set of tools for the synthesis of digital circuits. The system is tuned to the synthesis of DSP ASICs from behavior specifications written in Verilog. Sphinx consists of tools for behavioral, structural, and logical synthesis, technology mapping, and simulation. C and SKILL have been used as the implementation and extension language and the system will be integrated into the Cadence Edge Framework. The pipelined scheduling and allocation subsystem of Sphinx are examined in more detail

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; circuit layout CAD; digital signal processing chips; ASICs; C language; Cadence Edge Framework; DSP design; SKILL language; SPHINX; Sphinx; Verilog; allocation subsystem; extension language; high level synthesis system; interacting set of tools; logical synthesis; overview; pipelined scheduling; simulation; technology mapping; Computer architecture; Control system synthesis; Databases; Digital circuits; Digital signal processing; Hardware design languages; High level synthesis; Integrated circuit synthesis; Prototypes; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1992. ISCAS '92. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0593-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1992.229986

Filename

229986