A convenient methodology for efficient translation of C to VHDL

Author

Sankaran, Sobha ; Haggard, Roger L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Technol. Univ., Cookeville, TN, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

36951

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

207

Abstract

Hardware/software codesign is the cooperative design of hardware and software that maintains hardware and software within the same `stream´ of work. One important part of the codesign process is the translation of C code to VHDL. The paper presents a set of transformation algorithms and optimization techniques that help in this process of translation. Also presented in the paper is an example of a multiplication routine written in C that is translated into VHDL using these transformation algorithms

Keywords

C language; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; optimisation; program interpreters; C code; VHDL; cooperative design; hardware/software codesign; multiplication routine; transformation algorithms; Algorithm design and analysis; Costs; Design optimization; Hardware design languages; Merging; Programming; Software design; Software maintenance; Time to market; Turning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2001. Proceedings of the 33rd Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6661-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2001.918518

Filename

918518

Link To Document

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