Higher-Level Hardware Synthesis

Richard Sharp (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 196 Seiten

2004 | 2004
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-21306-2 (ISBN)

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In the mid 1960s, when a single chip contained an average of 50 transistors, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were doubling in complexity every year. In an in?uential article published by Electronics Magazine in 1965, Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the next 10 years. Despite being criticized for its "unrealistic optimism," Moore's prediction has remained valid for far longer than even he imagined: today, chips built using state-- the-art techniques typically contain several million transistors. The advances in fabrication technology that have supported Moore's law for four decades have fuelled the computer revolution. However,this exponential increase in transistor density poses new design challenges to engineers and computer scientists alike. New techniques for managing complexity must be developed if circuits are to take full advantage of the vast numbers of transistors available. In this monograph we investigate both (i) the design of high-level languages for hardware description, and (ii) techniques involved in translating these hi- level languages to silicon. We propose SAFL, a ?rst-order functional language designedspeci?callyforbehavioralhardwaredescription,anddescribetheimp- mentation of its associated silicon compiler. We show that the high-level pr- erties of SAFL allow one to exploit program analyses and optimizations that are not employed in existing synthesis systems. Furthermore, since SAFL fully abstracts the low-leveldetails of the implementation technology, we show how it can be compiled to a range of di?erent design styles including fully synchronous design and globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) circuits.

1. Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Related Work.- 3. The SAFL Language.- 4. Soft Scheduling.- 5. High-Level Synthesis of SAFL.- 6. Analysis and Optimisation of Intermediate Code.- 7. Dealing with I/O.- 8. Combining Behaviour and Structure.- 9. Transformation of SAFL Specifications.- 10. Case Study.- 11. Conclusions and Further Work.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2004
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 196 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	325 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Schlagworte	Compiler • Complexity • Functional languages • Hardcover, Softcover / Informatik, EDV/Hardware • Hardware • Hardware Description Languages • Hardware Design • Hardware/Software Codesign • hardware synthesis • HC/Informatik, EDV/Hardware • HC/Informatik, EDV/Informatik • SAFL • Systems Design • systems optimization • Systems Specification • Verilog • VHDL • VLSI specifications
ISBN-10	3-540-21306-6 / 3540213066
ISBN-13	978-3-540-21306-2 / 9783540213062
Zustand	Neuware