Title :
The CALLAS synthesis system and its application to mechatronic ASIC design problems
Author :
Windirsch, P. ; Duzy, P.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the use of high-level synthesis for ASIC designs in the mechatronic application domain. The first chip synthesized and fabricated is part of a distance measurement system. Only six weeks were needed for the design of the 2700 equivalent gates ASIC. The hand-crafted standard cell design had taken four times as long for a result of comparable size and performance. Similar results have been obtained in a second ASIC project, which is part of a friction clutch controller
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; clutches; controllers; distance measurement; high level synthesis; integrated logic circuits; logic design; mechatronics; CALLAS synthesis; concurrent engineering; distance measurement; equivalent gates ASIC; friction clutch controller; hand-crafted standard cell design; high-level synthesis; mechatronic ASIC design; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Distance measurement; Field programmable gate arrays; High level synthesis; Mechatronics; Signal synthesis; Silicon; Space exploration;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1993, with EURO-VHDL '93. Proceedings EURO-DAC '93., European
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4350-1
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1993.410650
