Hierarchical pipelining for behaviors, loops, and operations

Behavioral specifications of DSP systems generally contain a number of nested loops. In order to obtain high date rates for such systems, it is necessary to pipeline them across their tasks, loops, and operations. This paper presents an algorithm for pipelining a given throughput-constrained system at these three different levels of granularity, while at the same time, scheduling the operations within the loop bodies and selecting components for them. Results demonstrate the feasibility and quality of our approach, and also indicate that it may be used for synthesis or estimation purposes in system-level design