Title :
Hardware synthesis with the Bach system
Author :
Yamada, Akihisa ; Nishida, Koichi ; Sakurai, Ryoji ; Kay, Andrew ; Nomura, Toshio ; Kambe, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Integrated Circuits Group, Sharp Corp., Nara, Japan
Abstract :
We describe the Bach hardware synthesis system from parallel algorithms, allowing users to design, verify and synthesize large and complex circuits. Each is a working tool which is already being used for full-scale commercial designs. The source language is based on ANSI C with extensions to support explicit parallelism, communications and bit-width specification. We demonstrate its effectiveness by evaluating industrial strength applications
Keywords :
C language; VLSI; hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; parallel algorithms; ANSI C; Bach system; bit-width specification; explicit parallelism; full-scale commercial designs; hardware synthesis system; industrial strength applications; parallel algorithms; source language; Algorithm design and analysis; Circuit synthesis; Communication system control; Computer languages; Control system synthesis; Hardware; Integrated circuit synthesis; Parallel algorithms; Parallel processing; Signal design;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5471-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1999.780171
