SPAID: an architectural synthesis tool for DSP custom applications

SPAID is a design tool that maps digital-signal-processing (DSP) algorithms into multibus VLSI architectures. Explicit algorithm and VLSI performance constraints on throughput, latency, silicon area and power dissipation are obeyed. SPAID synthesizes a multibus multioperator (MBMO) data path with the minimum number of buses, operators and registers that satisfies the performance constaints. Design examples show that SPAID´s performance compare favorably with existing synthesis systems for high-throughput distributed architectures