Title :
Component selection for high-performance pipelines
Author :
Bakshi, Smita ; Gajski, Daniel D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The use of a realistic component library with multiple implementations of operators results in cost-efficient designs; slow components can then be used on noncritical paths and the more expensive components on only the critical paths. This paper presents a cost-optimized algorithm for selecting components and pipelining a data-flow graph, given such a library, and throughput and latency constraints. Experimental results on several large examples indicate the importance of component selection as a parameter in design exploration.
Keywords :
VLSI; data flow graphs; digital signal processing chips; integrated circuit design; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; DSP synthesis; component library; component selection; cost-efficient designs; critical paths; data-flow graph; high-performance pipelines; latency constraints; noncritical paths; throughput constraints; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Delay; Digital signal processing; Finite impulse response filter; Libraries; Parallel processing; Pipeline processing; Space exploration; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
