Multiple objective optimisation in behavioural synthesis

A behavioural synthesis system named MOODS, is currently under development at the University of Southampton as part of a collaborative project under the auspices of the DTI´s Information Engineering Advanced Technology Programme. The overall aim of the project is to produce an efficient implementation in silicon from a behavioural description of a design written in ELLA. The work described in the paper concerns the global optimisation of synthesised control and data paths using reversible design transformations, directed by means of a user-supplied cost function which can incorporate multiple constraints and target objectives