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Today's VLSI technology allows us to construct large, complex systems
with million transistors on a single chip. Most of the existing high level
synthesis systems give more priority to optimization of area, power, re-
source and time steps compared to interconnection cost, whereas the
later becomes predominant with the technology scaling and increase in
complexity. Further, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are now
becoming attractive platform for prototyping. Programmable devices
tend to have limited wiring resources between the data path elements.
This work is concerned with the development of a CAD tool for HLS
named, "Structured Architecture Synthesis Tool (SAST)", which
incorporates structured architecture generation with special emphasis on
optimization of interconnect area. The too takes a behavioral description
written in 3-address form and generates synthesizable RTL codes with
scripts for compliance with standard design tools like Synopsys, Magma
etc.
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