Title :
Industrial experimentation of high-level synthesis
Author :
Kission, P. ; Closse, E. ; Bergher, L. ; Jerraya, A.A.
Author_Institution :
system-level synthesis Group, TIMA/INPG, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
The use of the high-level synthesis system AMICAL for the architectural synthesis of the filter or subband synthesis described in the MPEG-AUDIO specification is described. AMICAL starts with a behavioral specification given in VHDL and generates a structural description that may feed existing silicon compilers acting at the logic and register transfer levels. AMICAL is an interactive tool, meaning that different solutions can be rapidly obtained by carrying out varied manual interventions. Several architectural solutions have been generated by means of the AMICAL system. A comparison table for the results obtained indicates that the final solution obtained by AMICAL respects the real time constraints imposed by the application
Keywords :
decoding; formal specification; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; interactive systems; logic design; optimisation; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; AMICAL; MPEG-AUDIO specification; VHDL; architectural solutions; architectural synthesis; behavioral specification; comparison table; high-level synthesis; interactive tool; logic level; real time constraints; register transfer levels; signal compression; structural description; subband synthesis; Circuit synthesis; Control system synthesis; Decoding; Design automation; Filters; High level synthesis; Logic; Phase change materials; Silicon compiler; Transform coding;
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.1993.410684
