High level synthesis of an (N,K) Reed-Solomon encoder using VHDL

The University of Huddersfield in collaboration with AWE is running a number of research programmes with the aim of creating a high-level interface (HLI) between the codec algorithms and parameters for the Reed-Solomon (RS) code, and a generic hardware circuit description. In VHDL these HDL models can then be submitted to a silicon compiler to give a complete path from algorithm to silicon. The paper outlines the work completed to-date with the emphasis on the use of VHDL within the project