DocumentCode :
1003939
Title :
Behavioural synthesis utilising dynamic memory constructs
Author :
Milton, D.J.D. ; Brown, A.D. ; Zwolinski, M. ; Wilson, P.R.
Author_Institution :
Electron. Syst. Design Group, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Volume :
151
Issue :
3
fYear :
2004
fDate :
5/19/2004 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
252
Lastpage :
264
Abstract :
Behavioural synthesis is the process whereby the description of a system behaviour is automatically translated into a physical implementation of that system. An essential prerequisite of this process is a language in which to express the design. Traditionally, hardware description languages (HDLs) are used for this, but there is currently much interest in the idea of coercing conventional software languages to do the same job (SystemC is the most prominent example of this). The goal of the research described is to increase the synthesisable description space to support the description of systems utilising dynamic allocation. VHDL supports the concepts of dynamic allocation, and is used as the entry language for the system, although without loss of validity SystemC could have been used. How the structures conventionally associated with dynamic description are implemented and supported is described together with a heap management subsystem that is both space and speed-efficient and which communicates with the user´s design via an automatically generated interface.
Keywords :
logic circuits; logic design; logic gates; low-power electronics; power consumption; transistor circuits; charge recycling logic structures; circuit controller; dual-rail isolated latch; event-detector circuit; logic family; logic gates; modular structure; no-race charge-recycling complementary pass transistor logic; pipeline configuration; power consumption reduction; ripple carry adders; signal skew sensitivity reduction; static latch structures;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computers and Digital Techniques, IEE Proceedings -
Publisher :
iet
ISSN :
1350-2387
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1049/ip-cdt:20040241
Filename :
1304187
Link To Document :
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