Dataflow driven hardware description method and its circuit synthesis based on operators

Author

Shan-Shan Yong ; Xin-an Wang ; Jing Lan ; Cheng-Hao Wu ; Xiao-Bo Long ; Zheng Xie ; Teng Wang

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Key Lab. of Integrated Microsyst., Peking Univ., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

To simplify the design & verification complexity and speed up design, a data flow driven hardware description method and its circuit synthesis based on operators are proposed. The behavior of each data is described precisely using a high level abstract language which is quite similar to ANSI C. The compilation tool ReCom compiles data flow driven description into circuit based on operators. There are four kinds of operators to implement circuit, and each operator has the attribution of self-synchronization by using handshake protocol to exchange data. A FFT design is given. Compared with the design using current design methodology, its speed is faster but with a loss of area.

Keywords

fast Fourier transforms; high level synthesis; network synthesis; program compilers; program verification; ANSI C; FFT design; circuit synthesis; compilation tool ReCom; dataflow driven hardware description; design complexity; exchange data; handshake protocol; high level abstract language; self-synchronization; speed up design; verification complexity; Abstracts; Circuit synthesis; Design methodology; Hardware; Integrated circuits; Registers; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2474-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2012.6467862

Filename

6467862